Sex, lies and the morning-after pill

It makes sense to keep emergency contraception in the house 'just in case'. So why do we have to be so deceitful to get it, asks Ellie Levenson.

Safe sex advertising campaign offers the bare facts

A hard-hitting government advertising campaign on sexual diseases, featuring raunchy scenes of young people grappling in pubs, clubs and on deserted footpaths, launches today in an attempt to make 18- to 24-year-olds think of condoms as 'essential wear' when they go out for a night.

Transsexual expert ‘put patients at risk’

The UK’s best known gender psychiatrist gave patients sex-change treatments without evidence they were genuinely transsexual, an inquiry heard today. The General Medical Council disciplinary hearing into consultant psychiatrist Dr Russell Reid was told that he repeatedly put patients at … Continue reading →

Woman wanted sex change ‘to become Christ’

A former patient of the UK’s best-known expert on transsexualism wanted a sex change in order to fulfil her delusion that she was Jesus, an inquiry heard today. The woman, identified only as patient D, told the General Medical Council … Continue reading →

Paedophile wants sex change reversed, hearing told

A patient today told the General Medical Council disciplinary hearing into gender psychiatrist Russell Reid that he regretted the operation and had requested further surgery to reconstruct his penis.

Sex change doctor treated patients like family, hearing told

A doctor accused of rushing people into irreversible hormone treatments and sex change surgery was known as “uncle” by his patients but viewed with concern by colleagues, a disciplinary hearing was told today. The consultant psychiatrist Russell Reid, 63, of … Continue reading →