Contraception Today is the ideal guide to contraceptive advice for general practitioners and practice nurses, a bestselling handbook summarizing concisely but full the various methods of contraception, of which there are now more than ever. Incorporating relevant WHO and national guidance documents, this edition continues to be a fully practical guide and includes several newly launched contraceptives. This fully updated ninth edition is the first English language text both to recommend throughout as first-line, unequivocally, the now-preferred regimens of the combined Pill which avoid any 7-day pill-free intervals, and to explain them fully for providers and users. These extended or continuous regimens are evidence-based and endorsed by WHO, the UK's Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health, and most other authorities, whereas the standard 21/7 ritual must now be viewed as suboptimal. Professor Guillebaud's writing is appreciated above all because he describes best practice, not only when there is a good evidence base, but also where relevant research has not yet been conducted. He guides clinical judgement in real-world situations, where there often are unknowns yet the time-limited healthcare provider faces someone needing practical help now, in making a choice of method according to his or her own priorities. Book jacket.