There are more safe and effective options than ever before but what’s safe for one person may not be the best option for ...

Explore safe, hormone-free birth control options and say goodbye to the contraceptive pill without compromising your body.

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 ...

This has become known as the ‘nocebo effect’ which is thought to be leading to young women quitting birth control.

Emergency contraceptive pills, often called the “morning-after pill,” are widely used as a quick solution after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure. For many women, they offer reassurance and ...

NOTE TO READERS: This story originally said the bill was headed to the governor’s desk. That was incorrect. SIOUX FALLS, S.D.

One of the most common worries women have about birth control is whether it might harm their future ability to conceive, especially if they use pills or other hormonal methods for years. This concern ...

Casey Means answered questions about the abortion pill, birth control, and vaccines out of both sides of her mouth.

Áine Rose Hurst, 19, died from a rare side effect of combination birth control pills — and now her family is speaking out to raise awareness of the risks Kerry Hurst/SWNS Áine Rose Hurst, 19, died of ...

A male birth control pill was born out of a UC Berkeley lab that found that plant-derived molecules could prevent egg fertilization. When Nadja Mannowetz, a former UC Berkeley research scientist, ...

As an OB-GYN training to be a complex family planning subspecialist at UC San Diego, I have seen misinformation about hormonal birth control circulating widely across the internet. Popular TikTok ...