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 ...

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

Evidence shows that birth control pills containing the hormones estrogen and progestin can increase the risk of different types of cancers and decrease the risk of others.  Since 1999, the World ...

Over the past decade or so, interest in holistic health and in women taking charge of their own wellness has risen on a national level. This has coincided with the release of more studies on risks of ...

Isa Abbott, Opinion Editor I wake up nauseated, my lower stomach in excruciating pain, and a wave of heat hits my body. Desperately, I try to reach for my ibuprofen, but it is too far. I take a deep ...

As an OB-GYN training to be a complex family planning subspecialist at UC San Diego, I have seen misinformation about ...

Women could get birth control drugs directly from pharmacies without needing a doctor’s prescription, according to a bill that cleared the Georgia House on Wednesday. The proposal would expand ...

House Bill 1138, known as the Increasing Access to Contraceptives Act, would allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives such as birth control pills.

Co-founder Samantha Miller has a simple goal: Make Plan B available everywhere condoms are sold.

The move is designed to keep the doors of the clinic open, and is a reflection of the increasingly blurred lines between the beauty industry and health care. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta Last week, the ...

Authoritarian regimes consistently restrict women’s and girls’ rights more severely than rights-respecting democracies. But today’s rising authoritarian governments differ from 20th-century ...