ESTROGEN/PROGESTIN/ANTIPROGESTIN METHOD AND KIT FOR ORAL CONTRACEPTION AND REGULATING MENSES

• Main Authors: HODGEN, GARY D, CHWALISZ, KRZYSZTOF
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 16.07.2008
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; STEROIDS

Menses regulation and, when desired, contraception is achieved at low doses of estrogen and progestin, which otherwise would create episodes of breakthrough bleeding and/or withdrawal amenorrhea, by periodically inducing menses with an antiprogestin.