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Health Canada sanctions Seasonale
Seasonale, an oral contraceptive outlined to limit the frequency of menstrual periods to just four per year, is slated to bang Canadian drug stores by the end of the year.....

Distribution Source : Finegenerics
Date : Friday, July 20, 2007

There is good news for all women seeking respite from menstruation along with undesired pregnancy as Health Canada has finally accepted Seasonale, a breakthrough birth control pill abridging menstruation to just four times a year. So, those excruciating days will soon be a thing of the past.

Seasonale, an oral contraceptive outlined to limit the frequency of menstrual periods to just four per year, is slated to bang Canadian drug stores by the end of the year.

Health Canada finally permitted Seasonale, which will be the first extended-cycle birth control to reach Canada, on July 5th. The oral contraceptive has already approved to be sold in 2003.

A 91-day treatment including 84 active tablets rich with hormones and seven inactive tablets, Seasonale will surely soothe nerve of busy women who do not want to endure the agony of monthly flow and who are with severe premenstrual syndrome.

Moreover, these birth control pills are also safe for continuous use if doctors' advice is to be weighed.

Seasonal is quite safe", opines Dr. Melissa Mirosh, a staff obstetrician and gynecologist at High River General Hospital and a contributor to the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada.

"In fact, for the last 40 years doctors have been advising women to use birth control pills continuously as to purge periods and associated severe menstrual symptoms like abdominal cramping and migraines" says Mirosh.

"Frankly, it is a mere re-package of already available product," she claims "But the novel addition is the fact that women will no longer bear period every month while taking birth control pills." She further adds.

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