The MHRA has advised that research into the risks associated with synthetic progestins is conducted in the UK and worldwide on a continuous basis by a variety of research bodies, including pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, universities and other independent researchers.The National Research Register (NRR), a UK wide database of all publicly funded research of relevance to the NHS, records that there are currently seven projects on-going in the UK on the effects of synthetic progestins.Details of these projects are available from the NRR, a copy of which is in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 17404).In the UK, a study (The Million Women Study) involving around one million UK women aged 50 and over is on-going and aims to answer many...