A draft recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering advising doctors to prescribe the antibiotic doxycycline, after unprotected sex, to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
Women who took a prescription painkiller alongside a morning-after pill had more success preventing pregnancies than those who only took the emergency contraceptive, according to a new medical study from Hong Kong.A 1998 trial found that levonorgestrel, one of the world's most popular morning-after pills, was 95 percent effective at preventing pregnancies when taken within 24 hours of unprotected sex.