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Contraception During COVID-19: Pharmacy Best Practices

Pharmacists should not allow postponed or cancelled appointments to keep patients from accessing birth control. It’s important that patients understand how their pharmacy can continue to meet their contraceptive needs during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Pharmacists should inform patients that even though clinics and providers’ offices might be closed, their pharmacy is still…

5 Things Pharmacists Need to Know About Preconception Health

Pharmacists have great potential to improve preconception health. As they become increasingly aware and involved in providing preconception care, pharmacists can help close the gaps in such care by being advocates for the expansion of their role in preconception health. Here are 5 things pharmacists should know about preconception health: 1. We have a big…

Thanks, Birth Control Day

Join The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, Bedsider, and me in saying, “Thanks, Birth Control” today! Birth control is a wonderful tool that helps us help our patients with family planning and other health issues. All the reasons I️ say “thanks, birth control” on this day every year: Thanks for fewer unplanned…

How to Set Your Birth Control Formulary and Inventory Levels

Inventory management can either make or break a pharmacy or clinic. It’s one of those things that you absolutely must keep a close eye on. Otherwise, things can go from good to bad and bad to worse very quickly. For the patient, their most basic expectation is to walk into the pharmacy with their shiny,…

Birth Control and Population Issues

With more women and men empowered to control their fertility with planning and birth control use, some populations are seeing drops in childbearing. Some countries are concerned about population declines and are promoting childbearing. The “baby bonus” programs of Australia and Singapore may ring a bell. Other countries are considering policies that restrict access to reproductive health services,…

Women’s Life Plans Have Changed

The average American woman’s life plan has changed drastically over the last few decades. It’s no longer start having sex, get married, and have a kid…all within 4 years. It’s now start having sex…continue having sex for about 9 years…then get married and have a kid in the year after that. This means young women…

Why I Started “Birth Control Pharmacist”

My ultimate goal is to help women and men who do not want to start or expand their families right now with their family planning needs. Seems simple. Despite a lot of valiant efforts, nearly half of all pregnancies…45% to be exact…are unintended (i.e., mistimed or unwanted). That’s millions of unintended pregnancies in the United States each…