Women may hold up half the sky, as Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong once famously declared, but these days they must do so while also holding a baby — or preferably three — in their arms at ...

The company behind the controversial app launched a wristband that tracks your temperature, heart rate, and movement while you sleep. The company behind the controversial app launched a wristband that ...

Kristan Hawkins is not what you might call a unifying figure. The founder and leader of Students for Life of America, a grassroots anti-abortion network, Hawkins travels to college campuses for ...

A newly published manuscript authored by Dr. Gunda Georg, YourChoice Therapeutics and Columbia University Medical Center describes the chemical journey of YCT-529, a non-hormonal male birth control ...

Birth control interactions occur when medications or supplements affect how well contraception works or increase side effects. These interactions vary depending on the type of birth control you use.

Last week while chatting with a friend, we landed on the topic of birth control — namely, how she was questioning whether or not to remain on her current prescription. When I inquired further, curious ...

Hormonal birth control can both help and hinder chronic health conditions, depending on the specific method and the condition. Individuals with chronic conditions should consider how different birth ...

In this retrospective cohort study, investigators assessed whether having stress-related psychiatric conditions influenced how the use of combined hormonal birth control affects the risk for major ...

Person-centered contraceptive counseling (PCCC) was received by only one third of adolescents aged 15-19 years compared with nearly half of adults aged ≥ 25 years, yet adolescents who received PCCC ...

Teen tennis star faces life-altering challenges when she discovers she’s pregnant, risking her scholarship and future. I figured out why Congress has been so willing to do nothing | Opinion Public ...

Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor of heart disease and diabetes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome ...

Oregon health officials this week announced a new policy change to make it easier for people enrolled in Medicaid to access birth control. As of Tuesday, Oregonians enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan, ...