Under the drive to address the wrong beliefs about “Emergency Contraception”, OBG Management has teamed up with” The Journal of Family” to publish “Emergency Contraception: When and how to use it”. This would be distributed as a supplementary copy to the February 2008 issues of journals like “OBG Management” and “The Journal of Family Practice”.The purpose of issuing this supplement is to increase awareness among the patients about emergency contraception. This would decrease the incidence of unintended pregnancy.

The supplement has been distributed among the clinicians. This would enable them to tackle the subject of emergency contraception more intelligently. They would be able to create awareness as most of the people are misinformed or uninformed about it. So this supplement would also serve as an excellent guide for clinicians to explain about its usage, when to take it and how it works.

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“Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE)” is a minimally invasive treatment for fibroid tumors in the uterus. Although fibroid tumors are not malignant, they may cause heavy menstrual bleeding, pain in the pelvic region and pressure on the bladder or bowel. They may interfere with urinary frequency, induce pain during intercourse and can cause miscarriage and affects fertility too. However the treatment is only administered by interventional radiologists and the specialist physicians.

A recent study presented at the ‘Society of Interventional Radiology’s 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting’ however analyzed that only few women are aware of this treatment. They conducted a research among 105 patients in the Atlanta metro area and found that only 18 percent of the women were informed by their gynecologists about ‘uterine fibroid embolization (UFE)’. Most of them knew about it primarily through the Internet or any media advertisement. Only among rare cases, they got referrals from their gynecologists.

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