Revision of the ‘missed pill’ rules – at last

We have waited 6 years for this moment; the rules put forward for missed pills in 2005 have finally been revised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) – more or less back to the rules we had before. Diana Mansour assesses the current rules and looks at the increasing recognition of the importance of the pill-free interval in pill failures.

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VTE and the Pill – again

This commentary by Klaas and Lothar Heinemann looks critically at the two papers by the Jick group recently published in the British Medical Journal. They explain the problems inherent in database studies of this kind and conclude that these papers do not add anything useful to the literature on this topic.

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Early marriage in India and its effect on women's reproductive health

Data from the third wave of the National Family Health Survey (2005–2006) was used to examine the effects of early marriage on the reproductive health status of women and on the well-being of the children. Early age at marriage has a detrimental effect on a woman's reproductive health status. Women married at an early age are exposed to frequent childbearing, unplanned motherhood and abortions. Children …