(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 ...

When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000 people hit the “like” button. Of the pros, the girl said her birth control made her period ...

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.

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 ...

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would codify the right to contraceptives Thursday, amid fears the Supreme Court could be looking to rescind them, but the bill faces worse odds in the ...

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 ...

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