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 ...
As an OB-GYN training to be a complex family planning subspecialist at UC San Diego, I have seen misinformation about ...
Hormonal birth control is a fact of life for millions of women. In the U.S. alone, more than 60 million women of reproductive age have used contraceptives according to the Centers for Disease Control ...
With several birth control options available, doctors say some methods are more effective than others and have different side effects.
If you miss your period after you stop birth control, you might be concerned, especially if you’ve had a negative pregnancy test. But a delayed period after stopping hormonal birth control is common.
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 ...
How Does Mirena Work for Birth Control? Mirena is a small, flexible plastic, T-shaped system that slowly releases small amounts of a progestin hormone (levonorgestrel) into your uterus. It is the same ...