by admin | Apr 18, 2019 | Featured
Last month, the UK’s Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare announced updated guidelines on oral contraceptives, declaring a seven-day break each month to bleed unnecessary. This prompted many women to voice their anger at having been seemingly hoodwinked by...
by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Featured
“Today in vindication,” wrote a woman on Twitter on Tuesday, summarizing the way many have received a striking new study that found those who use birth control — especially teenage girls — may be at a significantly higher risk of experiencing depression. The research,...
by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Featured
On September 2016, JAMA Psychiatry published a Danish study that found a correlation between the use of hormonal birth control and being diagnosed with clinical depression. The study tracked hormonal birth control use and prescription of antidepressants over...
by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Featured
Like an inflatable penis pool toy at a hen’s party, for many women the Pill has been a license to go wild. Simply by taking a tiny tablet every day, a woman can outsmart her inbuilt baby-making equipage and enjoy worry-free sex. But while the majority of the...
by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Featured
If you’ve picked up a copy of our latest issue (and if you haven’t, you can here) you’ll know that our EIC Beccy Hill interviewed Holly Grigg Spall about her incredible research into the contraceptive pill and it’s effects on women’s...
by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Featured
Millions of women rely on the contraceptive pill and many are happy with it – but some find it has a devastating effect on their mental health. Here Vicky Spratt, deputy editor of The Debrief, describes years of depression, anxiety and panic as she tried one...
