‘The most feminist thing you can do for yourself is not take birth control’: The shifting politics of the pill

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 ...

The journey of the molecule behind a male birth control pill

A newly published manuscript authored by Dr. Gunda Georg, YourChoice Therapeutics and Columbia University Medical Center ...
ZME Science

This FDA Approved Birth Control Method Is Effective But Your Doctor Probably Never Mentioned It

“Since most physicians don’t know that this is an option, patients don’t know about it. It’s safe, effective, and puts the ...

The birth control pill increases the need for these 5 nutrients

The birth control pill contains the hormones estrogen and progestin, which prevent the monthly ovulation and provide women ...

Why Indian Women Are Skipping PCOS Pills For Natural Healing Fixes

Women with PCOS know that there is no permanent 'cure' and are turning to natural remedies amid limited medical research ...
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Safe options for young parents to explore

Most of the women think they can't get pregnant postpartum. The truth is fertility returns even before first menstruation, increasing the chances of unintended and closed space pregnancy. In this ...
Medical Xpress

Birth control can ease PCOS symptoms without added heart or diabetes risk, clinical trial finds

Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor of heart disease and diabetes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome ...
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Behind the scenes: Creating a hormone-free male birth control pill

Gunda Georg and Narshimulu Cheryala, who directed much of the lab work to develop YCT-529 Around the world, roughly 121 million unintended pregnancies occurred each year between 2015 and 2019. Of ...
Washington Examiner

The holy war over birth control

There are slightly complicated procedural and legalistic issues involved, but the bigger question is why employer-provided contraception coverage is so important as to require these legal battles to ...
NBC News

FDA approves label change for Depo-Provera, adding brain tumor warning

The Food and Drug Administration approved on Friday a label change for Pfizer's birth control shot Depo-Provera that warns patients of the risk of meningioma, a tumor in the lining of the brain.
Slate

The New Argument Against Birth Control That Could Appeal Directly to RFK Jr.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Anti-contraception activists learned from ...
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Exeltis USA, Inc. v. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and its U.S. subsidiary were hit with a patent infringement lawsuit on Nov. 6 in New Jersey District Court. The action, brought by Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga and Fish & ...