Experts debunk five widespread contraception myths, providing clear facts to help women make confident, informed decisions about birth control, fertility, breastfeeding, STD protection, and health., H ...

Some medications and supplements can make your birth control less effective at preventing pregnancy. These include some ...

With birth control having lacked sufficient research for decades, millions of people using the contraceptive pill are left ...

Yamah Kollie, 36, was shaken when a nurse at the Duport Health Center, in Liberia's Montserrado County, delivered unexpected news: she was pregnant.

Common pills - including over the counter painkillers and prescription contraceptives - can make high blood pressure worse ...

Six decades after the first oral contraceptive for women was approved in the United States, University of Minnesota ...

In a new study, a new male contraceptive pill was found to be effective in humans without any side effects. With the phase-2 ...

The newly published ACCORd follow-up study by Monash University's SPHERE Center of Research Excellence will help address ...

House and governor must agree to give women the ability to access six months' worth of birth control at a time. Thirteen ...

This has been supported by academic research – a recent paper published in the academic journal Social Science and Medicine on declining rates of the combined oral contraception pill in western ...

For combined oral contraceptives, combined nonoral contraceptives, and progestogen-only nonoral contraceptives, risk was higher (adjusted hazard ratios, 1.72, 1.97, and 1.40, respectively). Use of ...

The decades-long dream of creating a male equivalent of 'the pill' is moving closer to reality. Scientists in the US have begun testing a hormone-free contraceptive tablet in men called YCT-529.