A woman who suffered from a series of miscarriages while trying for a child has become the first in Britain to undergo a 15-minute sterilisation operation.
Hope for new infertility treatments and a male version of the Pill is a step closer after doctors found a faulty gene linked to poor sperm, the Daily Telegraph reports.
In a reversal of Bush-era policy, a US federal judge has ordered that the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B, be made available to 17-year-old girls without a prescription.