America’s tumbling birthrate is pushing colleges toward a “demographic cliff,” where a declining population in the late teens ...

It’s a weird time to talk about contraceptives. Here's what the debate is missing.

“Since most physicians don’t know that this is an option, patients don’t know about it. It’s safe, effective, and puts the ...

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 ...

Gunda Georg and Narshimulu Cheryala, who directed much of the lab work to develop YCT-529 Around the world, roughly 121 million unintended pregnancies occurred each year between 2015 and 2019. Of ...

There are slightly complicated procedural and legalistic issues involved, but the bigger question is why employer-provided contraception coverage is so important as to require these legal battles to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals recalled almost 27,000 packs ...