Most of the women think they can't get pregnant postpartum. The truth is fertility returns even before first menstruation, increasing the chances of unintended and closed space pregnancy. In this ...

We are still in the season of prognostications about the year ahead. But I gave my forecasts for 2026 last week. Today I am ...

China introduced a 13% tax on contraceptives while exempting childcare services as the global superpower battles sustained ...

White House Finds Way Around Hobby Lobby Birth Control Decision. The Obama administration on Friday issued its final rules ...

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 ...

The most common side effects of birth control methods are minor and temporary. But it’s important to be aware of the more serious risks, too, before you choose a contraceptive method. While birth ...

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 ...

Charlotte Freed first got a hormonal IUD when she was a teenager. She wasn't sexually active at the time, but she wanted to be protected from pregnancy before she started college. This was also a time ...

1 in 4 sexually active women has used injectable birth control, administered into the muscle by a clinician, but many may be unaware of its association with meningioma, the most common brain tumor in ...

For decades, the responsibility for contraception has fallen mostly on women, who have had access to over 20 FDA-approved methods. Meanwhile, men have only had two options: condoms or vasectomies, ...

Figuring out birth control is something most people face at some point. In the United States, 88.2% of reproductive-aged women have used at least one form of contraception during their lifetime. Birth ...

The Trump administration has been trying to destroy almost $10 million worth of taxpayer-funded birth control and other contraceptives that were meant for women in low-income countries. The vast ...