Fertility & Reproductive Health: Medications

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  • Meclofenamate

    Drug
    09/04/08, Healthwise

    This medicine can increase your risk of life-threatening heart or circulation problems, including heart attack or stroke. Do not use this medicine just before or after having heart bypass surgery (also called coronary artery bypass graft, or CABG).

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  • Urofollitropin

    Drug
    02/09/08, Healthwise

    Using this medicine can increase your chances of having a multiple pregnancy (twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc). A multiple pregnancy is a high-risk pregnancy for the mother and for the babies. Follow your doctor's instructions about any special car

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  • Follicle stimulating hormone (injectable)

    Drug
    08/11/04, Healthwise

    Treatment with follicle stimulating hormone increases the likelihood of multiple births. Multiple births carry additional risk both for the mother and for fetuses. Discuss the risk of multiple births with your healthcare provider.

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  • Lutropin alfa

    Drug
    10/25/04, Healthwise

    Treatment with lutropin alfa increases the likelihood of multiple births. Multiple births carry additional risk both for the mother and for fetuses. Discuss the risk of multiple births with your healthcare provider.

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  • Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) for infertility

    Article
    03/21/08, Healthwise

    Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is produced by the hypothalamus. It stimulates the pituitary gland to produce luteinizing hormone (LH) and, to a lesser extent, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).

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  • Gonadotropin treatment for infertility

    Article
    03/21/08, Healthwise

    In women. Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) are necessary for egg production (ovulation). Early in the menstrual cycle, a woman with low hormone levels who is not ovulating can have daily human menopausal

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  • Spironolactone for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

    Article
    01/23/08, Healthwise

    Spironolactone is a diuretic, which gets rid of excess salt and water in the body. It also reduces androgen levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

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  • Menotropins (injectable)

    Drug
    12/16/04, Healthwise

    Menotropins may increase the likelihood of multiple births. Multiple births may carry additional risk both for the mother and for the fetuses.

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  • MUSE for erection problems

    Article
    05/21/08, Healthwise

    The medicine relaxes the muscles in the surrounding blood vessels of the penis, increasing the blood flow into the penis. This allows an erection to occur. The medicine is inserted into the penis before sex. How well it works depends on h

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  • Progestin for dysfunctional uterine bleeding

    Article
    02/12/08, Healthwise

    Progestins prevent overgrowth of the endometrium, which helps prevent dysfunctional uterine bleeding. (Heavy bleeding is often the product of irregular breakdown of an overgrown endometrium.) In teens and women who aren't ovulati

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