If you smoke or vape nicotine at all, talk with your doctor about what birth control method is safe for you. It’s safe to use progestin-only pills or other non-estrogen methods like the shot ...

If you can get past the obvious ick factor, a city’s sewage contains an ocean of information. During the pandemic, for instance, Austin and other cities tracked COVID surges and new variants of ...

While the bill calls for testing a few substances in addition to those in birth control and abortion pills — including BPA appearing in plastics, the carcinogen benzophenone and a couple of ...

How to Take Birth Control Pills. Ask your doctor when you should start birth control pills. If you’re still having your period on the day you’ve been told to start your pill pack, start it anyway.

You’ll need to use a backup form of birth control for 2 days if you’re more than 3 hours late to take a pill or miss any number of pills. If you should have taken your pill 3 or more hours ago ...

So, given that context, it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that online searches about accessing birth control and abortion pills have spiked in the last few days.

“The birth control pill is a daily hormone-based medication that's used by a person with ovaries and a uterus to prevent pregnancy,” says Dr. Gina Frugoni, MD, an assistant professor of ...

Birth control pills are not the only form of contraception available. People who do not wish to take a medication every day can consider long-acting reversible contraceptives, such as intrauterine ...

So, say you take your pill at 8 a.m. every day; if the next day you take it after 11 a.m., you’ll have to use a backup birth control method for 48 hours (while continuing to take Opill as directed).

Forget alcohol — birth control pills could lower your inhibitions. New research out of Canada suggests daily contraceptives could thin regions of the brain responsible for decision-making and ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the oral contraceptive Opill for over-the-counter use, making it the first nonprescription birth control pill in the United States.