About two years after the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the ...

Should morning after Plan B pills be your main source of birth control? No; the morning-after pill, writes the Mayo Clinic, isn't meant to be a main method of birth control.

“The increasing fear-mongering about hormonal birth control, and advising against birth control in general, is definitely ...

A large new study found that the nonprescription Opill is expanding birth control access to many women who used no contraception in the past.

As social media and wellness podcasters bombard young women with messages about the pill, many are questioning what they’ve long been told.

Hormonal birth control is a fact of life for millions of women. In the U.S. alone, more than 60 million women of reproductive ...

In the first installment of her column “The Repro Rundown,” Audrey Twyford (CAS ’25) delves into the details of how birth control methods work, including the contraceptives available on the market ...

In 2018, a handful of couples ditched their birth control to embark on a one-year trial of a hormonal topical gel as their only contraceptive. This gel, however, was for men to use in order to ...

Social media is full of videos saying hormonal contraception can hurt you and promoting natural alternatives. How did the ...

A newly developed, on-demand birth control for males works by targeting sperm motility, preventing the sperm from swimming to a mature egg for fertilization.

The availability of a reversible form of male birth control is coming closer to fruition after researchers presented further evidence that this particular method — which suppresses the ...