Now in its 22nd edition, Contraceptive Technology has more than 2 million copies in print and has been the leading family planning reference for over 30 years. Contraceptive Technology is a one stop, patient-centered reference guide for health care professionals and advanced practice nursing students in FNP, WHNP, and CNM programs. Whether it is family planning, reproductive counseling, maintaining contraception while managing a specific disorder, abortion, or post-partum contraception, this trusted resource can be referenced in any situation with patients seeking guidance on reproduction and contraceptive options. This best-selling reference provides breadth, depth of knowledge, and expansive research from over 85 medical experts in the field of contraception. With a holistic approach, it focuses on the patient, meeting them where they are to offer the right solution for them, not just the most convenient. Contraceptive Technology elevates awareness of technologies available in contraception, demystifies perceptions, provides current, fact-based information, and emphasize a patient-centered approach. This comprehensive resource covers the field: • Every contraceptive method, including for women with medical conditions; • The thorniest of clinical dilemmas in understanding risks and managing side effects; • Every STD, including a synopsis of CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines; • A systematic approach to menstrual disorders and contraception Insights into assessing abnormal pregnancies and risk of ectopic pregnancies; • New digital resources in reproductive health care, for you and for your patients; • Fertility awareness-based methods, including patient instructions and new technology; • Approaches to medication abortion; • Special considerations for teens, breastfeeding mothers, and menopausal women.

In 1983 two doctors, one from each side of the world, decided to form a partnership, and so began a scientific adventure that would improve the odds that babies could be born healthy and whole. Neural tube defects that severely disabled or killed babies were epidemic in China (where the folk term was guai tai--roughly ""monster baby""--for an infant whose embryonic neural tube doesn't completely close and whose head and neck may be misshapen or spine may protrude) and a significant problem in the United States, leading teams of researchers from the United States and China to combine forces to recruit more than 285,000 Chinese women and to follow nearly 250,000 pregnancies in an epidemiological study. Sixteen thousand staff were involved in running the project, which encountered massive bureaucratic obstacles as well as cultural differences, politicking for study designs and funding, the crisis of Tiananmen Square, and testy debates over research ethics. Nevertheless, the researchers persevered in a collaboration that lasted more than three decades and led to landmark findings on the role of folic acid in preventing spina bifida. Fortifying cereal grain products with folic acid became routine in the United States and a growing number of nations around the world: that intervention was named one of the ten great public health achievements of the last decade.

In 1983 two doctors, one from each side of the world, decided to form a partnership, and so began a scientific adventure that would improve the odds that babies could be born healthy and whole. Neural tube defects that severely disabled or killed babies were epidemic in China (where the folk term was guai tai--roughly ""monster baby""--for an infant whose embryonic neural tube doesn't completely close and whose head and neck may be misshapen or spine may protrude) and a significant problem in the United States, leading teams of researchers from the United States and China to combine forces to recruit more than 285,000 Chinese women and to follow nearly 250,000 pregnancies in an epidemiological study. Sixteen thousand staff were involved in running the project, which encountered massive bureaucratic obstacles as well as cultural differences, politicking for study designs and funding, the crisis of Tiananmen Square, and testy debates over research ethics. Nevertheless, the researchers persevered in a collaboration that lasted more than three decades and led to landmark findings on the role of folic acid in preventing spina bifida. Fortifying cereal grain products with folic acid became routine in the United States and a growing number of nations around the world: that intervention was named one of the ten great public health achievements of the last decade.