If you just stopped taking hormonal birth control, your body and brain might feel all over the place. Maybe you’re having mood swings or getting serious acne and irregular periods. These ...

You thought going off birth control would be the easy part. Spoiler alert: it’s not always that simple. If you’ve ever dealt with the emotional rollercoaster of starting birth control, you probably ...

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 ...

The study sought to answer questions about how breast cancer risk differs by type of hormonal contraceptive. Doctors say the ...

There’s certainly nothing wrong with avoiding birth control, taking a nonhormonal approach to it, or having a large family.

When you’re on birth control, your body gets a steady dose of hormones that help prevent pregnancy by stopping ovulation (the release of an egg). These hormones also affect things like your menstrual ...

From overlooked side effects to misleading claims online, a variety of forces are fueling skepticism around the drugs, which ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Perhaps you’ve noticed something new at your local market. Opill, the first oral contraceptive approved by the FDA for over-the-counter use, began shipping to ...

Since the approval of the first birth control pill in the 1960s, millions of women have relied on hormonal contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies, regulate periods and manage other health ...

Last Wednesday, Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper dropped a solo episode where she shared that she decided to come off birth control to start trying for a baby. There was just one problem: shortly after ...