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Oral contraceptives - side effects

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<ul><li>Medical Education Trust/IPPF leaflets ("The Pill and Sex: Risks to Health and Fertility", "Can Smokers Take the Pill?")</li>
<li>Extracts from journals/newspapers etc.</li>
<li>IPPF/DHSS press releases</li>
<li>Correspondence with manufacturers (Schering)</li>
<li>Copy of "The Pill: the gap between promise and performance" booklet by Dr Margaret White</li>
<li>Report of the Royal College of General Practitioners on the Oral Contraceptive Pill, 1981</li>
<li>Syntex booklets ("Why do some women suffer from side-effects on one "Pill", but not on another?", "The opinions of UK Family Doctors on oral contraception regulators")</li>
<li>Notes on oral contraception for obstetric students at Charing Cross Hospital, by Dr M Blair & Dr G Howard</li>
<li>FPA booklet "Diseases in which the prescription of an oral contraceptive may well form an important part of therapy or in which oral contraceptives must be used with caution"</li></ul>

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Oral contraceptives - side effects

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