IUDs Women’s health professionals count IUDs, or IUDs, among the most effective birth control methods, in part because people who use them don’t have to remember to take or apply them like a pill or patch. The doctor inserts one of the T-shaped devices into the uterus, a procedure that typically takes five minutes. Depending …
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For other elderly parents, the changes made by the pandemic have helped clarify their boundaries in painful ways, even if they bring something akin to wisdom. Sarah Balcomb, a writer who has a 9-year-old daughter and lives in Lexington, Va., realized that she was permanently done with reproduction as Hemingway once described fracture: gradually and …
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ULYSSES, by James Joyce. (Folio, $795) With illustrations by John Vernon Lord, this extravagant 500-copy edition celebrates the novel’s 100th anniversary. BEATRIX POTTER: Drawn to Nature, Edited by Annemarie Bilclough. (Rizzoli Electa, $45.) The accompanying catalog for an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London collects drawings, photographs, and letters from the author …
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A few years ago, after learning that she had high blood pressure, Shannon Connell-Robichaud asked her doctor to change her birth control pill prescription. She had read that the pill she was given put her at higher risk of stroke in her peers with this condition. The doctor agreed, she said—but only after Ms Connell-Robichaud, …
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