Here we report the case of an 18-year-old woman with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who became pregnant while undergoing treatment with dasatinib. Before pregnancy, she received imatinib mesylate therapy but could not tolerate the treatment. The regimen was then changed to dasatinib at a dose of 70 mg b.i.d. While she was in hematological remission and on dasatinib therapy, she became pregnant....

BACKGROUND Women using primary care vary in need for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) testing and contraception. Psychosocial correlates of these needs may be useful for targeting services. We undertook a systematic review to identify psychosocial correlates of STI acquisition, unplanned pregnancy (UP), abortion and risky sexual behaviours in general population samples of women of reprodu...

BACKGROUND There is significantly high contraceptive knowledge in South Africa, but the uptake of contraceptives is average to low with resultant soaring of unplanned pregnancy and rising statistics of termination of pregnancy (TOP) services. This study aimed to establish the contraceptive practices among women in the South African population seeking TOP in one public hospital in Eastern Cape, ...

The terms "planned", "unplanned", "intended", "unintended", "wanted" and "unwanted" are often used in relation to pregnancy in health policy, health services and health research. This paper describes the findings relating to women's understanding of these terms from the qualitative stage of a British study. We found that when discussing the circumstances of their pregnancies, women tended not t...

CONTEXT Young women frequently cite concerns about the effects of unplanned pregnancies on future life course outcomes, including education, employment and relationships, as reasons for seeking abortion. There is relatively little evidence as to whether abortion leads to improved life course outcomes for young women who choose this option. METHODS Data from 492 women participating in a 25-yea...

This paper seeks to explore women's experiences of conception, and to deconstruct the dichotomy between the terms "planned" and "unplanned" pregnancy. It draws on interviews with 19 primagravidae conducted as part of a wider qualitative study of women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth. Although the concept of pregnancy intention is widely regarded as ambiguous, and by some immeasurable,...

T congenital malformation remains the leading cause of mortality and serious morbidity in infants of mother with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, inspite of advancement in understanding pregnancy metabolism and treatment. Studies have established association between elevated maternal glucose during embryogenesis and high rates of spontaneous abortions and major malformations in newborn. Clinical tria...

Correspondence E. R. Brandão Instituto de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Av. Horácio Macedo s/n, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-598, Brasil. [email protected] Results of the Born in Brazil study (Pesquisa Nascer no Brasil; CSP 2014; v. 30 sup. 1) recently published in the Brazilian press 1,2 emphasize the need for wider social debate on contraception and unplann...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and bowel resection might experience reduced effectiveness from oral contraceptive agents. We report a case of a woman with Crohn disease who became pregnant while compliant with her combined oral contraceptive pill (OCP) regimen. Patients with Crohn disease have a greater risk of contraceptive failure because the diseased bowel causes increased pa...