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 Science Translational Medicine, 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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