The anticipation of a Republican-controlled government with Donald Trump serving a second term as president has left some women fearful over access to reproductive healthcare. On the day after Trump's ...
The most commonly used and prescribed birth control pill in the U.S. was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) as carcinogenic. In ...
Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor ...
Birth control pills taken orally may increase risk of ischemic stroke among women who show evidence of other stroke risk factors, according to a paper in MedLink Neurology. The paper notes oral ...
Two years after the FDA approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, new research shows it’s effectively expanding access to contraception. Women who took nonprescription Opill (norgestrel) ...
The 1940s were a pivotal time for the world. In the United States, as men went to fight in World War II, women became essential additions to the US workforce. And when the war ended, many of those ...
TikTok has become a hotbed of birth control misinformation, with videos accumulating millions of views in which women blame their IUDs for pelvic floor dysfunction, autoimmune conditions, liver ...