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On the pill

WInuns.jpgAlthough famously celibate, a new study by the University of Melbourne says that nuns would be better off on the contraceptive pill.

Scientists have discovered that nuns in the USA have higher death rates from breast, ovarian and uterine cancer than for other women of the same age. In 1970, it was formally recognised that the lack of childbearing in nuns raised their ...

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