A diaphragm is a silicone device shaped like a shallow cup that you insert into your vagina to prevent pregnancy.

The Prorace cervical cap took off in England in 1915. (Science Museum, London/) Donna J. Drucker is senior adviser in English as the Language of Instruction at Technische Universität Darmstadt, ...

Women have used internal barriers in an attempt to prevent pregnancies as far back as ancient Egypt. However, they only became widely known and used after World War I, when they became available ...

Seattle, WA, September 9, 2014. The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has cleared the Caya® contoured diaphragm for marketing in the United States, bringing women one step closer to a ...

Researchers at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk had a role in the development of a new non-hormonal contraceptive, Caya. The single-size diaphragm is the first new design in the U.S. market ...

Almost all (98 percent) Zimbabwean women who were unable to persuade their male partners to use condoms consistently, used the diaphragm as an alternative method of contraception and disease ...

Prior work suggests an association between perineal use of cosmetic talc and increased ovarian cancer risk. A meta-analysis was performed to examine this hypothesis by evaluating ovarian cancer risk ...

oral contraception_TS_520365492 Unplanned pregnancies can occur when a patient misunderstands the proper use of contraception. A number of years ago I worked for a busy OB/GYN practice. We had several ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/2648288 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2648288 Copy URL Context: In Turkey, where contraceptive prevalence is about 65%, a large number of ...