Contraceptive chaos

Copper-T better in emergency, but doctors do not encourage its use

Marketing abortion pills

Bad medicine

A drug suspected of having disastrous side-effects is being used as a contraceptive in Delhi

Risky decision

New injectable male contraceptive

A styrene maleic anhydride 'plug' has few side-effects and is reversible.

Contra indicative

Depo-Provera leads to diabetes, says study

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Not the morning after remedy

Overuse of emergency contraceptives can kill

Male birth control options are in development, but a number of barriers still stand in the way

There has not been a new form of male birth control since no-scalpel vasectomy in 1980s

Let’s talk sex

Awareness campaign changes attitude towards sexual health and family planning in Bihar

Birth control pangs

Injectable contraceptives raise alarm

Virus alert

A genetically engineered viral contraceptive for mice could sterilise non-targeted species

Out of control

Parts of India still struggle to stabilise population growth

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Moneymakers

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Why simply legalising abortion is not enough

Governments need to pay equal attention to the safety of abortions, sex education and counselling, and varied problems faced by new borns of …

A step towards health rights for women

Saheli, a Delhi-based women's organisation, has, for some time, been fighting against long-acting female contraceptives like Net-oen and Norplant-…

People are not the planet's pollutants

The consumerist tendency of our society has resulted in the branding of population explosion as the villain in a world that has place for everyone'…

The clot and the pill

Women using latest versions of birth control pills stand a higher risk of developing blood clots

New study could pave the way for novel contraceptive

Researchers found that in the absence of an enzyme critical for sperm formation in mouse, sperms failed to develop completely

Lifting the barriers

Reproductive choice, gender equality and sustainable development are closely connected, say the latest report on the world's population