Helen Jaques

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the contraceptive pill, first approved by the FDA in 1960 and now the choice of contraception for more than 100 million women worldwide. By uncoupling sex from pregnancy, oral hormonal contraceptives finally allowed women to become agents of their own bodies. Life isn’t all rosy on the pill [...]

I recently read an interesting paper in The Lancet about birth complications in women who conceive using assisted fertilization, i.e. IVF, compared with complications in women who give birth having conceived normally. Studies generally report a higher risk of complications at birth for babies conceived by IVF than for those conceived naturally. Women who undergo [...]