Seven billion: that is the estimated number of people the United Nations predicts will be alive on the planet this year, and climbing to a possible nine billion by 2050.

MORRISTOWN, N.J. and NEW YORK, March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI) today announced an exclusive licensing agreement to commercialize the Population Council's investigational contraceptive vaginal ring in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

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From mood swings to nausea, women accept some side-effects in exchange for reliable, hormone-based birth control, such as the Pill. But that doesn't mean they're happy about it.

Researchers announced their disappointment upon finding that an anti-AIDS vaginal gel failed to stop HIV infection in their study of 6,000 South African women. The gel was the first of its kind to make it through late-stage testing.