(Original Caption) 6/5/1976-New York: The government and doctors have decided the 10 million American women taking oral contraceptives are entitled to more information about possible side-effects of ...

All hormone contraceptives, including progestagen-only “minipills,” carry a small “excess risk” of breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Oxford, but the overall ...

Illustration by the Atlantic. Source: SSPL / Getty. “From the get-go, the researchers involved in developing male contraception have paid extra- close attention to: Can we develop products for which ...

The overturn of Roe v. Wade has put a spotlight on the availability of affordable, highly effective birth control in the U.S. Many younger women, however, don’t want their mothers’ contraceptives.

Rates of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) prescriptions in the least deprived areas are more than 30% higher than ...

New research presented today at the European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) 2025 revealed that the use of combined oral contraceptives (OCs) is associated with a threefold increase in the risk ...

Hormonal contraceptives taken by adolescents may influence development of the brain in a way that alters the recognition of risks, a new study in rats suggests. Scientists at The Ohio State University ...

USAID has retracted a statement to The New York Times claiming that nearly $10 million in contraceptives, paid for by the United States government but held in a warehouse in Belgium, were destroyed ...