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During the visit, Bowman says she asks a woman about her sexual history, any past methods of birth control and the type of relationship she is in. This provides a "baseline exam so that everyone knows where you're coming from," says Dr. Harris Faigel '56, the director of the Brandies student health service and treasurer of the New England College Health Association...
...Bowman says she advises students that their choices are abstinence, the condom or the condom with vaginal spermicides, the diaphragm, the pill or depo-provera, a hormone administered by injection...
Though UHS does not prescribe the IUD or Norplant, Bowman can refer students to hospitals which can insert them...
...most common form of contraception which students use is the condom, followed by the pill, Bowman says. The pill--a daily oral contraceptive made of cycles of cycles of hormones which prevents ovulation--is the number one prescribed form of birth control, Bowman says...
...most side effects are not serious, and there is no evidence of the pill causing longterm fertility problems, says Bowman. Also, women should not be concerned about consuming high doses of hormones, since the levels in the pill are "very low," Bender says...