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New pill could allow women to avoid
PMS
June 13, 2007
A new birth control pill could allow women to say good-bye to the monthly
dread of cramps and PMS. The Food and Drug Administration approved Lybrel
— a birth control pill that eliminates a woman's monthly period
— last month.
The pill is taken every day, and 59 percent of women who took Lybrel during
clinical studies had no bleeding or spotting during the last month of
the one-year clinical studies, according to an FDA press release.
Women on Lybrel might experience "unplanned, breakthrough, unscheduled
bleeding or spotting," according to the release. That bleeding and
spotting will decrease in time for most women.
Birth control pills are typically packaged with three weeks worth of pills
and one week of placebos, or sugar pills, to be taken during the week
a woman is menstruating. No placebos are taken if a woman is on Lybrel.
Lybrel might be new but the concept of eliminating periods is not, said
Dr. Scott Hansfield, an OB/GYN at Fond du Lac Regional Clinic in Waupun.
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