Public Health
Why Women—and Men—Need Better Birth Control
The IUD is held up as the gold standard of contraception. That says a lot about the slothful pace of innovation
Stories by Maya Dusenbery
Maya Dusenbery is a journalist and author of Doing Harm: The Truth about How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, 2018). Previously she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Credit: Nick Higgins
