Most health insurance plans cover prescription birth control, annual wellness exams, and STI/HIV screenings with no copay. Contact your health insurance company to find out if the services you need ...

An adolescent physician has seen hundreds of children seeking prescription birth control or help for mental illness. Some were in abusive environments, others had loving parents. Both groups wanted to ...

An adolescent physician has seen hundreds of children seeking prescription birth control or help for mental illness. Some were in abusive environments, others had loving parents. Both groups ...

Birth control is the use of different devices, sexual practices, techniques, chemicals, drugs, and/or surgical procedures to purposely try to prevent getting pregnant while having sex. There are ...

Several months ago, on a mockingly optimistic sunny morning and the start of a new month, I told myself I'd quit hormonal birth control pills. It felt like I was in middle school again ...

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YCT-529 has already been tested in mice and was found to block 99 per cent of pregnancies – putting it on a par with the female birth control medication. The pill, which experts hope will be ...

That’s on par with the efficacy of female birth control pills. In non-human primates, the drug lowered sperm counts within two weeks of starting the pill. Both mice and non-human primates fully ...

Birth control pills, first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960, were a game-changing method for family planning. Since then, contraception has expanded to multiple forms like the ...

Someone asked us: Is it true that birth control pills cause an abortion? No. Birth control pills can’t end a pregnancy. Hormonal birth control methods like the pill, ring, patch, and shot are safe and ...

Read more about the change from STAT’s Katie Palmer. Taking hormonal birth control in the first year after having a baby was associated with a 1.5 times higher “instantaneous” risk of ...