Recent CDC budget cuts have raised concerns about their impact on women's reproductive health, potentially limiting access to ...

At Newton Wellesley Hospital, OB/GYN Dr. Kathryn Davis called the CDC's medical eligibility criteria for ... women," said Davis. The chart helps doctors determine safe contraceptives for patients ...

A small team of researchers responsible for keeping clinicians up to date on contraception research has been cut. Doctors say ...

New additions include the CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, which details the safety of different types of contraceptives for people with various medical conditions ...

The contraception research team at the CDC, which maintained the U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC) for the past 15 years, is gone. The MEC and its partner publication ...

The team behind CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC) was another casualty in the mass layoffs at HHS -- and clinicians worry what losing this critical guideline will ...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The new statement, which updates the CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2010, advises postpartum women not to use combined ...

As part of an update to the CDC's practice ... injectable contraception, which was originally added to the practice recommendations in 2021. In terms of the medical eligibility criteria, there ...

Telecontraception — the provision of contraception ... to the Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC MEC) 4 or who had ...