Combined oral contraceptives are associated with increased emotional eating, suggesting hormonal effects on eating behaviors ...

Women taking active birth control pills reported more emotional eating, highlighting a possible link between hormones and ...

The EMA has alerted healthcare professionals to a small increased risk for meningioma with the progestogen-based contraceptives desogestrel and etonogestrel.

The 20th century saw humanity develop in leaps and bounds, and without a doubt one of the most revolutionary advances was oral contraceptives, more commonly known as "the pill." Until the 1980s, the ...

Serum corticosteroid-binding globulin and total cortisol levels decrease rapidly and normalise within 4 weeks after the ...

Birth control pills are safe and effective for millions of women, but researchers are still working to understand how the ...

Researchers found emotional eating increased during hormone-containing birth control pill days, highlighting a possible link ...

Danish study expands association to include injectable and oral medications, IUDs ...

Forget alcohol — birth control pills could lower your inhibitions. New research out of Canada suggests daily contraceptives could thin regions of the brain responsible for decision-making and impulse ...

Women who used combined oral contraceptives had a significantly higher mean age of hidradenitis suppurativa onset, as well as higher rates of concomitant polycystic ovary syndrome and multifollicular ...

Credit: Perrigo. Opill is a progestin-only oral contraceptive that is highly effective at preventing pregnancy when taken daily at the same time without interruption. On July 13, 2023, 50 years after ...

A large portion of women in the U.S. take oral contraceptive pills to prevent pregnancy and manage menstruation. New research by Handy and colleagues (2023) published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine ...