Some people expressed concern that the list could be used to track people using such medication in states with abortion ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A clinical trial suggests YourChoice Therapeutics’ newest oral male contraceptive could be side-effect-free. The study administered the drug to 16 ...

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), who is running to succeed retiring Sen. Joni Ernst (R), is pushing to expand access to birth control as the race for the open Senate seat heats up. The Iowa congresswoman ...

Mary Ziegler, a contributing writer to Globe Ideas, is a professor of law at the University of California, Davis, and the author of "Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction." Specifically, the ...

Most sexually active women in the U.S. use contraception to prevent pregnancy. Following the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling, which overturned Roe vs. Wade and paved the way for abortion bans across ...

Certain foods and supplements can interfere with the effectiveness of birth control pills, potentially leading to unintended side effects or reduced contraceptive reliability. Knowing which to avoid ...

Drug names are complicated things. For one, they must linguistically fulfill the role of being a shiny bauble for prescribers to be memorable enough to outshine competitors. But they must also walk a ...

When I was twenty-two, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Though I experienced symptoms for years, it wasn’t until I went a full year without getting a period that I realized I ...

Washington, D.C., is launching a rat birth control program to lower the rodent population in the city. The pilot program is set to begin this spring with the distribution of ContraPest according to DC ...

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 ...