2011-04-16T12:56:12+0000">April 16, 2011 – 12:56 pm
In Great Britain over 3 million women are now using oral contraceptives, i.e. one in three women of child-bearing age. ‘The pill’ has major advantages in addition to its reliability. It has helped many heavily populated countries to achieve lowest-ever birth rates. Fewer and fewer abortions are being performed. Periods are less often painful. On [...]
2009-05-08T09:58:35+0000">May 8, 2009 – 9:58 am
Endometrial resection and ablation were introduced in the late 1970s in the US and are now routine procedures in many hospitals. Many tens of thousands of the procedures are performed worldwide each year. The speed with which the techniques have been taken up by medicine has surprised and shocked many people who say that fundamental [...]
2009-04-23T07:18:43+0000">April 23, 2009 – 7:18 am
Homeopathy The word homeopathy comes from the Greek words homos (meaning ‘same’) and pathos (meaning ‘suffering’). In homeopathy different people suffering from the same problem can be given different remedies because each person is treated according to their individual constitution. Pulsatilla is often given for women with no periods or irregular periods.148 General remedies recommended [...]