Some Canadian doctors say patients on birth control need monitoring. But medical authorities in other countries increasingly ...

Views writer Savannah Burke argues that cycle-tracking wellness trends spread birth control misinformation and threaten women ...

Kristan Hawkins is not what you might call a unifying figure. The founder and leader of Students for Life of America, a grassroots anti-abortion network, Hawkins travels to college campuses for ...

Birth control interactions occur when medications or supplements affect how well contraception works or increase side effects. These interactions vary depending on the type of birth control you use.

Last week while chatting with a friend, we landed on the topic of birth control — namely, how she was questioning whether or not to remain on her current prescription. When I inquired further, curious ...

In this retrospective cohort study, investigators assessed whether having stress-related psychiatric conditions influenced how the use of combined hormonal birth control affects the risk for major ...

Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor of heart disease and diabetes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome ...

If you took the warning label that comes with your birth control and tossed it right in the trash, you wouldn’t be alone. After all, every medication comes with a risk of side effects, and those ...

It’s a taxing time for sweethearts in China. After a 30-year exemption, the country is slapping a 13% sales tax on condoms, birth control pills and devices, hoping to boost its declining birth rates ...

The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision “made people think about their future plans,” researchers said Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty The number of women who sought permanent birth control via surgery ...

As misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media ...

Social media has long been rife with misinformation about birth control, much of it slamming hormonal contraceptives for health harms (like infertility or even abortion) that it does not cause, or ...