Blocked fallopian tubes - One reader told us last week about her partially blocked fallopian tubes.

The Pill: It can double your cancer risk, even years later - Is the birth control pill as safe as the latest research suggests? Last autumn researchers concluded that not only did the pill not increase the risk...

Female sterilization - Q:What are the long term side effects of sterilization by plastic clamps or cutting women's fallopian tubes and abortion by vacuum suction and general...

Progesterone - what are the risks when prescribed while pregnant? - Q:I have had a series of miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy, even though I have children. These seemed to happen in a spate, with two missed abort...

Female sterilization - Q:In vol 4 no 2, a Q & A brought me up short. In the answer to the problem of long term side effects from female sterilization, you state ". . ....

So you think you need . . . a tubal ligation - Female sterilisation is touted as a safe and hassle-free means of permanently ridding yourself of having more children, particularly for the over-40s....

Fertility via the back door - Infertility and repeated miscarriage clearly have many causes. Besides the better known reasons, such as blocked fallopian tubes, failure to ovulate,...

Contraceptive has high cancer risk - Depo-Provera, the long-lasting contraceptive that can be injected, doubles the risk of breast cancer among women who have taken it for less than five...