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Rebuilding confidence in oral contraceptives: a new imperative in family planning
Author(s) -
SPITZER WALTER O.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.216
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1365-2125
pISSN - 0306-5251
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2125.1996.03582.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , medicine , meaning (existential) , public health , presentation (obstetrics) , family planning , alternative medicine , family medicine , population , history , psychology , research methodology , nursing , obstetrics , environmental health , pathology , archaeology , psychotherapist
On December 14, 1995, the first public presentation of results of the Transnational Case‐Control Study of Oral Contraceptives and the Health of Young Women was made at the winter meeting of the British Pharmacological Society at Brighton. Four weeks later, those results and further analyses were published in the British Medical Journal . There has been much debate about them in Europe and elsewhere. I feel privileged to have been invited to write a Leading Article about the safety of combined oral contraceptives in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. These are personal opinions about the meaning of all the recent pharmacoepidemiological findings. With an historical context as the background I have added my personal reflections as a scientist and a public health doctor. These views do not necessarily reflect the views of my co‐investigators.