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Social media is full of videos saying hormonal contraception can hurt you and promoting natural alternatives. How did the ...
TIME spoke to doctors to unpack whether people who get migraines with aura can take certain types of birth control.
Misleading social media content is encouraging women to get off birth control. Here's what to know about stopping hormonal ...
Doctors and exercise physiologists explain how your birth control method might affect your workout routine and athletic performance, and what to do about it.
Many people have been on some form of contraception for years, but what are the effects—both negative and positive—of ...
Two months after getting my IUD inserted, I started to experience faster and thicker hair growth on my body. Experts explain ...
Sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that married couples have a constitutional right to use contraception, a Connecticut ...
For decades, birth control conversations have largely focused on women—pills, patches, injections, implants—while men have been left with just two real options: condoms or a vasectomy. That imbalance ...
Beyond that, there have been high-profile failures of products like the birth control implant Essure, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2002 and taken off the market in ...
You’ve got lots of birth control options, and they’re excellent at preventing pregnancies when you use them the right way. Here’s how to get them, and what to do if costs get in the way. It ...
The birth control pill, the ring, and the patch could potentially be sold over the counter, as long as they meet all of the FDA criteria, says Cullins (this includes making sure people can ...