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Women taking contraceptive pill can drop seven-day break, new guidance says

21 January 2019

Women on the contraceptive pill no longer need to stop taking it for one week in every four, according to new NHS guidance. Emeritus Professor John Guillebaud (UCL Institute for Women's Health) said the break was devised to make the pill “more acceptable for Catholics to use."

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