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Women who are happy about their vagina get more pleasure?

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Women who feel confident and comfortable about their vaginas have more sex and get more head, according to a US study. But vaginal self-confidence isn’t only about pleasure, it could just save your life.

Man on a menstruation mission

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A cheap machine to make affordable sanitary pads for Indian women: it’s entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham’s greatest achievement, he says. When Muruganantham learned of the unhygienic way his wife had to deal with her periods, he helped out.

PCOS generation: the trouble with ovaries

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A growing number of women in urban India are discovering that their ovaries aren't working properly. They’ve got polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Gynaecologist Dr Kanthi Bansal says 60% of the women patients at her fertility clinic have PCOS.

Dutch researchers help women climax

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Amsterdam’s AMC university hospital is testing a unique way of bringing women to orgasm in the lab. The volunteers watch erotic films while a special device stimulates their clitoris. If that doesn't work, they get a quick dose of testosterone.