Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a high-risk disease in the middle-aged and elderly population. The ischemic heart may be further damaged after reperfusion therapy with percutaneous coronary ...

Since Carl Djerassi and Gregory Pincus brought the proof of concept of OCs in the early 1960s, with a pill containing norethidronel as a progestin and mestranol as an estrogen, many different ...

Expert Rev of Obstet Gynecol. 2008;3(2):189-201. New progestins associated in third-generation OCs were created to minimize androgenic side effects, such as hirsutism. They also induce less nausea ...