Western Europe - Guide to Birth Control

A 39-year study of women taking the contraceptive pill found that they had a lower risk of dying from any cause compared with women who had never taken it, researchers said. "Oral contraception was not associated with an increased long term risk ...

Unchecked population growth is speeding climate change, damaging life-nurturing ecosystems and dooming many countries to poverty, experts concluded in a conference report released Monday. Unless birth rates are lowered sharply through voluntary family-planning programmes and easy access to contraceptives, the tally of ...

British couples should consider having no more than two children to help reduce the environmental impact of the rising global population, doctors have said. An editorial in the British Medical Journal today calls on GPs to encourage the view that bigger families ...

Topic: Western Europe

Women who take contraceptive pill live longer: study

Population growth driving climate change, poverty: experts

Doctors' advice to Britons: have fewer children and help save the planet

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