Jan Greune

Should Nuns Take the Pill to Prevent Cancer?

If there’s one group of women who shouldn’t need to worry about birth control, it’s Catholic nuns, who have taken a vow of chastity to better serve the Church. But now researchers in Australia argue that these very women could benefit greatly from being on the pill, not for contraception, but for reasons of health.

How the Pill Affects Sexual Satisfaction, Lasting Marriage

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Good news and bad for women who take the pill: new research finds that those who meet their partners while taking oral contraceptives report less sexual satisfaction in their relationships — but they’re also less likely to split up.

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To Slash the Abortion Rate, Dole Out Birth-Control Pills a Year at a Time

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Abortion is one of those topics that gets people fired up. Everyone’s got an opinion, but one thing pretty much everyone agrees on is that it would be great if the abortion rate were lower. One thing that may help: call it the Costco effect — when women are allowed to stockpile contraceptives, a new [...]

Developing a once-a-month male birth control pill?

In the search for a form of male contraception that can rival the female birth control pill, a team of researchers from Israel may have just made a breakthrough. As the Telegraph reports, in initial animal trials the team of researchers found that a pill they’d developed — which works by stripping sperm of a [...]

Can the birth control pill help you live longer?

Women who have taken the pill may live longer because they face less risk of heart disease and cancer, according to new study led by Dr. Philip Hannaford from Scotland’s University of Aberdeen. The study, published this week in the British Medical Journal, followed more than 46,000 female patients from 1,400 medical practices throughout the [...]