July 2022

The future of birth control is equitable The onus of preventing pregnancy has fallen on women for time immemorial – from estrogen pills to intrauterine devices, to contraceptive patches, to the newly-introduced estetrol and progestin pill Nextstellis, which is supposed to have the least side effects of birth control methods that target female reproductive systems. […]

Clinical research: what, why, and how Everyone remembers the penicillin story and the wise, brooding face of Alexander Fleming – but what people probably don’t know is what was going on in his mind when he came across the fungus from the Penicillium genus. But behind the groundbreaking discovery was something all researchers probably share: