(Reuters Health) - A new contraceptive vaginal ring prevents pregnancy for a year and allows women to have complete control over conception, ...
- A new contraceptive vaginal ring prevents pregnancy for a year and allows women to have complete control over conception, according to a report that details the results of two clinical trials testing the safety and efficacy of the device.
Dubbed Annovera, the device was developed by the nonprofit Population Council and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in August 2018. It will be sold in the U.S. market by TherapeuticsMD, Inc., starting later this year or in 2020. The company has not announced the price of Annovera but has agreed to provide significantly reduced pricing to family planning clinics serving lower-income women.
While women are told they can take the rings out for two hours at a time, presumably for intercourse,"you can wear them while having sex," Banks said."Men don't notice when they're in there and the few who do notice it doesn't seem to bother." When the data from the trials were analyzed, the device turned out to be 97.5per cent effective, meaning that if 1,000 women used the device, 25 could become pregnant. The researchers followed up on 290 of the women and found that all had started to menstruate normally once they stopped using the rings, and 24 of the 38 who had wanted to become pregnant did so within six months of ring removal. The new study did not report on side effects from the ring.
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