Once-A-Month Oral Contraceptive Could Improve Patient Adherence (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Once-A-Month Oral Contraceptive Could Improve Patient Adherence (1 of 1)

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X-ray images showing the gastric drug delivery system loaded with a long-lasting formulation in three pigs over 29 days. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 4, 2019, issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.R. Kirtane at David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research in Cambridge, MA; and colleagues was titled, "A once-a-month oral contraceptive."

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[Credit: A.R. Kirtane <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)]

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