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Contraception

Female Sterilzation (PDF Format)
Facts About Today's Low-dose Oral Contraceptives (PDF Format)
How to Use the Diaphragm (PDF Format)
Suggestions to Help You stop Smoking (PDF Format)
Oral Contraceptives and Cholesterol (PDF Format)
Health Benefits of Oral Contraceptives (PDF Format)
Before You Decide to Have Sex, Consider this.... (PDF Format)
Spermicides (PDF Format)
Progestin-only Pills or "Mini-Pills" (PDF Format)
Pregnancy Termination: Medical Abortion: RU-486 and Misoprostol (PDF Format)
Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM) (PDF Format)
Fertility Methods - Basal Body Charting: Temperature Method (PDF Format)
The Female Condom (PDF Format)
Menstrual Changes with Injectable Contraception (PDF Format)
Emergency Contraception - Patient Education Sheet (PDF Format)
Emergency Contraception Options (PDF Format)
Withdrawl - Coitus Interruptus (PDF Format)
Abstinence (PDF Format)
Depro-Provera Injections (PDF Format)
The Diaphragm (PDF Format)
Condoms for Women (PDF Format)
Condoms Work (PDF Format)
Breastfeeding: Nature's Way of Spacing Babies (PDF Format)
Cervical Cap (PDF Format)
Vasectomy (PDF Format)
Tubal Sterilization (PDF Format)
The Pill (PDF Format)
Outercourse (PDF Format)
Pregnancy Termination - First Trimester Medical Abortion with Methotrexate and Misoprostol (PDF Format)
Pregnancy Termination - First Trimester Surgical Abortion (PDF Format)
You're Pregnant and You're Going to Have a Baby! (PDF Format)
The Progestasert IUD (PDF Format)
Norplant Implants (PDF Format)
The Levonorgestrel IUD (PDF Format)
The Copper IUD (PDF Format)
Contraceptive Film - VCF (PDF Format)
Contraceptive Foam (PDF Format)

Other

When Your Pap Smear is Slightly Abnormal (link to AAFP website)
Having a Colposcopy (link to AAFP website)
Premenstrual Syndrome - PMS (Barbara L. Bridges)
Breast Health (Barbara L. Bridges)
Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (Barbara L. Bridges)
Amenorrhea (Barbara L. Bridges)

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