Contraception Initiation after Early Abortion in a Family Medicine Setting: A Retrospective Chart Review.

Objectives: Early abortion increasingly is provided in the primary care setting, allowing improved access, continuity of care, and contraception, if desired. We aimed in this retrospective chart review to describe postabortion contraception provision in a family medicine office.

Methods: Participants were those patients who obtained an induced abortion during an 11-year period at a family medicine office.

Oocyte developmental competence and embryo development: impact of lifestyle and environmental risk factors.

Oocyte development is the end result of a sophisticated biological process that is hormonally regulated and produced by highly specialized cellular lines that differentiate in early embryo/fetal development. Embryo development is initially regulated by maternal transcripts until replaced by embryonic genomic expression. Then, an assortment of hormones and local environmental factors in various concentrations along the reproductive tract (e.