Pharmacy News

Women confront new sexual issues at menopause. The most obvious is that you have physical evidence that you can no longer get pregnant. The relief from having to deal with contraception or worry about periods can mean a new found freedom of sexual expression. Jane recalls, T never realized how much contraception interfered with our [...]

While we’re on that subject, it’s interesting to hear the attitudes of both men and women about penis size and how it relates to sexual performance. There has always been a popular mythology that a huge penis is the symbol of masculinity, potency and sexual magnificence. The comparisons start in the school toilets and are [...]

The nature of the birth process, with the physical and emotional exposure that it involves, means that many of a woman’s previous inhibitions are swept aside. Complete strangers are privy to one of your life’s most intimate and vulnerable moments and some women find they can ‘let loose’ more readily with their partner. For others [...]

A number of different techniques to help fertilization are now fairly commonplace. IVF (invitro fertilization) simply means ‘fertilization in glass’. Apart from being the best-known technique, it is probably also the most emotionally draining.

We have become quite familiar with the media images of delighted couples nursing their IVF twins or triplets following years of heartbreaking [...]

Commitment doesn’t have to have a timeframe. Kay has been married to the same man for sixteen years. ‘We met when we were at school and we became good friends. We would sit together in class and have lunch together most days. Then one weekend when we were about seventeen I was invited to a [...]