For many women, the pill has been a dependable part of life – a safeguard against unplanned pregnancy and, for some, a way of managing difficult periods or conditions such as endometriosis. It works ...

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 ...

Singer-songwriter Lorde, in a May Rolling Stones profile, opened up about her decision to stop taking hormonal birth control ...

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 ...

Side effects experienced when taking oral contraception may be affected by women's expectations and beliefs about the pill, according to an exploratory study by psychologists. Researchers at the ...

American women spend about five years either pregnant, trying to get pregnant or postpartum; contrast that with the three decades they spend trying to consciously avoid having a baby. That data, from ...

Recently, health influencers on Instagram and TikTok have been vocal about the side effects of hormonal birth control. Check ...

An advocate for women’s reproductive health, she started one of the world’s smallest pharmaceutical companies to bring an ...

Morning-after pills are emergency contraceptives that prevent pregnancy by delaying ovulation. They work best when taken quickly. Side effects may include nausea, fatigue, and menstrual changes. They ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to develop a male contraceptive similar to the birth control pill that can be taken orally and is reversible, with minimal side effects. An oral male ...