Kristan Hawkins is not what you might call a unifying figure. The founder and leader of Students for Life of America, a grassroots anti-abortion network, Hawkins travels to college campuses for ...
A new study published in Neuropsychopharmacology suggests that the use of oral contraceptives may influence how the brain ...
Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD Key Takeaways The vaginal ring (NuvaRing or Annovera) is hormonal birth control that ...
The use of combined hormonal contraceptives is linked to a reduced risk for major heart issues in women regardless of ...
Charlotte Freed first got a hormonal IUD when she was a teenager. She wasn't sexually active at the time, but she wanted to be protected from pregnancy before she started college. This was also a time ...
This story is not meant to serve as medical advice and is for informational purposes only. Women around the country celebrated when the first over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill, was approved ...
Social media has long been rife with misinformation about birth control, much of it slamming hormonal contraceptives for health harms (like infertility or even abortion) that it does not cause, or ...
More than 65 percent of women ages 15 to 49 in the United States use some form of birth control, and many of them are on hormonal birth control methods like the pill, patch, ring, implant, injections, ...