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 ...

Choosing a contraceptive method is a deeply personal decision, yet it is often shrouded in myths and old wives' tales. In India, many women hesitate to use oral contraceptive pills due to fears of ...

With several birth control options available, doctors say some methods are more effective than others and have different side effects.

Surgeon general pick Casey Means stood by her past claims that birth control has "horrifying health risks" and softened her tone during a confirmation hearing Wednesday. The big picture: Some pro-life ...

Doctors warn that frequent use of morning after pills expose the body to a hormone dose several times higher than a regular contraceptive pill disrupting the body’s hormonal rhythm ...

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 ...

In the video, we see Handler in bed, covering her breasts with her hands as she tells people the realities of being a sexually active woman. “As a woman with natural breasts, not that that has ...

When Kazane Kajiya voluntarily sterilised herself in the United States aged 27, she essentially "flipped the middle finger" at Japan's patriarchal society that had long pushed her towards motherhood.

YCT-529 inhibits retinoic acid receptor alpha to suppress sperm production reversibly. Currently in Phase 1b/2a trials, the compound has shown promise in preclinical models and aims to expand ...

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 ...

“The question of whether it should be an in-person visit is out of the purview of the surgeon general’s office, but I do believe that every patient needs to have a very thorough conversation with ...