The Morning-After Pill
A new study says, a new morning-after pill has been found to be more effective that the one widely used today. This new pill works up to five days longer for those women who had unprotected sex. The most widely used emergency contraceptive pill, Levonorgestral, has been found to only be effective is taken with three day of having sex. Levonelle and Plan B are two names that it has been sold under. Over 140 countries sell it including Canada, the U.S. and western Europe. Women can purchase it without a prescription in almost 50 of those countries.
Researches compared it to Plan B, ulipristal acetate, sold under the name of ellaOne only in Europe. This pill can be bought without a doctor’s prescription and is not legally on the market anywhere else. A study tracked women ages 16 to 36, 1,700 of them, all who took an emergency contraception withing three to five days after unprotected sex. Half took ellaOne and the other half took Plan B.
IN the Plan B group 22 pregnancies were reported and in the ellaOne group, 15 pregnancies were reported. Headache was the most reported side effect in both groups.
