As an obstetrician-gynecologist in the 1950s, Jack Lippes, MD, ’47, fielded many complaints from patients dissatisfied with their limited options for birth control. “Back then, it was a diaphragm or ...

Follow-up studies of 7 to 19 months of two groups of 500 women each in Barbados, in one of which a Lippes loop had been inserted by a doctor and in the other by a nurse-midwife, showed a slightly ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. White plastic intrauterine device ...

Taiwan's island-wide family planning programme is the showcase of similar programmes in the developing world. In the past eight years, between 1964 and 1971, a cumulative total of 935,000 married ...

The grey-haired spinster waved a delicate, S-shaped twist of plastic at her audience of newsmen in New Delhi last week and announced triumphantly: “It’s foolproof.” What Dr. Sushila Nayar, India’s ...