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A team of scientists has made headlines after stating that an in-development male birth control compound has been 99 percent effective in animal tests. The male contraceptive, which can be taken ...

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Family planning in India has quietly witnessed a paradigm shift over the past decade. Talking about family planning has moved beyond the confines of population management and wedding bells. Today, ...

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There has been a shift away from the use of more reliable hormonal methods of contraception to less reliable fertility awareness methods among women requesting abortion in England and Wales over the ...