In this essay, based on documental analysis, the limitations associated with the use of pill organizers and cutters are discussed and analyzed as a matter of public health. The use of the organizers for storing and carrying tablets and capsules exposes these medications to environmental factors from which their original packaging protected them, compromising their stability and safeness. Cutter...

The time comes now to really think about the national policy over contraceptive pill after COVID-19 mental depression. This planet might face an adverse effect on biodiversity using such pills. After preventing unwanted pregnancy, consumed birth control pills pass from human water system and start their undesirable second innings suppress fertility in aquatic lives, domestic or wild animals.Bes...

Penyakit tuberkulosis menjadi salah satu kasus kematian tertinggi sehingga perlu perhatian khusus dalam upaya pencegahan dan penanggulangannya agar menghentikan penularan. Kepatuhan meminum obat merupakan faktor penting keberhasilan pengobatan tuberculosis (TB), mengurangi resiko gagal atau kuman mycobacterium resisten terhadap (Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk...

Iron pill inhalation represents a uncommon cause of syntomatic endobronchial foreign bodies. Unlike foreign body, the direct contact of iron tablet onto the bronchial mucosa results in severe bronchial damage in addition to obstruction and local irritation. Four patients with Iron Pill Inhalation Syndrome are described. All but one patient developed irreversible bronchial stenosis as late post ...

The release of Enovid in 1960, the first birth control pill, afforded U. S. women unprecedented freedom to plan childbearing and their careers. This paper uses plausibly exogenous variation in state consent laws to evaluate the causal impact of the pill on the timing of first births and extent and intensity of women’s labor-force participation. The results suggest that legal access to the pill ...

The Clinical Effectiveness Unit acknowledges the points raised by Drs Donegan1 and Mansour2 in their letter and commentary article, respectively, published in this Journal. In our initial draft of the missed pill statement, the text was more detailed and included a section on practical application of missed pill guidance in each week of the pill pack. In producing a statement there is a balance...

Decades of research on the US gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women changed their career paths in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper explores the role of "the Pill" in altering women's human capital investments and its ultimate implications for life-cycle wages. Using state-by-birth-cohort variation in legal access, we show that younger access to the Pil...

Iron-deficiency anemia is a prevalent condition treated with iron supplementation. Iron pill-induced gastritis is an under-recognized, albeit serious potential complication of iron pill ingestion. This entity must be identified by healthcare providers who prescribe iron. We present a case of a 59-year-old male with iron deficiency anemia on ferrous sulfate tablets who underwent an upper endosco...