Article: New alert over St John's wort and the Pill.

Article: PILLS & ILLS: Beware St. John's wort ...
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  February 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Q: Can St. John's wort cause the birth control pill to fail, as I've heard? A: St. John's wort, an over-the ... be a sign of diminished pill effect and possible contraceptive ... failure. Women who combine St. John's wort with a hormonal ...

Article: St. John's wort and oral contraceptive ...
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... theoretical suspicions that St. John's wort may interfere with oral contraceptive pills (OCP). St. John's wort induces cytochrome ... using the Ortho-Novum pill for three consecutive ... they received 300 mg of St. John's wort tid. Serum ...

Article: PILLS & ILLS: St. John's wort can be ...
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  February 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... bulk of evidence suggests that St. John's wort works about as well ... responded substantially better to St. John's wort than to a placebo (fake pill). In head-to- head comparisons ... prescription antidepressants, St. John's wort performed about as ...

Article: Rude Awakening With Mood-Lifting Herb.(St. John's ...
Newsweek;  May 22, 2000 ;     601 words ... ... antidepression herb St. John's wort can render birth-control pills up to 50 percent less ... women who trusted the pill to keep them from ... FDA has added the pill to its list of drugs ... interact badly with St. John's wort. Apparently ...

Article: Aurora recalls herbal pill after lab test St. ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Aurora Health Care has withdrawn its St. John's wort herbal product from 70 retail ... of its effectiveness boosted sales of St. John's wort by 1, 900% from 1995 to 1997 ... Laboratories in Denver to test several brands of St. John's wort, an herb used to combat mild ...

Article: ONCE DESPISED, ST. JOHN'S WORT MAKING COMEBACK | ...
News-Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  October 11, 1997 ;     699 words ... ... a crushed-up and capsuled plant -- St. John's Wort -- and claiming it puts them ... supply of Prozac runs about $75, but 60 St. John's Wort capsules cost under $15. Because ... the first U.S. clinical trial for St. John's Wort was announced last week by the ...

Article: St. John's wort
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders;      700+ words ... ... s wort are both used. St. John's wort is available as pills, capsules, extracts ... with oral birth control pills. St. John's wort may interfere with ... taking both birth control pills and St. John's wort may notice bleeding ...