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20th European Congress of Endocrinology

Barcelona, Spain
19 May 2018 - 22 May 2018

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ECE 2018, 19 - 22 May 2018; Barcelona, Spain

Plenary Lectures

Contraception: Past and future

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Contraception: past, present, and future

Bouchard Philippe

50 years after the approval in the USA of the first oral contraceptive, it is quite remarkable that this considerable medical advance, may be the greatest medical discovery in the last century, the combined pill, which replaced condoms and unreliable natural methods, is still a matter of controversy. Recently, fear for hormones is more and more common in women in relation with the pill scares observed in UK and in France, and in relation with the media noise on Endocrine disru...