Women who use Depo-Provera face a higher risk of developing a slow-growing brain tumor, according to a new study that comes as the contraceptive’s maker, Pfizer, faces hundreds of lawsuits claiming ...

Posts urging women to stop using traditional oral contraceptives are exploding online, in part due to influencers promoting them with hashtags like #stopthepill, #hormonefree and #naturalbirthcontrol.

Elina Berglund, the co-founder and co-CEO of Natural Cycles, was user zero for the first-ever FDA-cleared birth control app. Now she’s building for the next phase of her life—and the lives of millions ...

1 in 4 sexually active women has used injectable birth control, administered into the muscle by a clinician, but many may be unaware of its association with meningioma, the most common brain tumor in ...

Michigan State University (MSU) researchers have identified the molecular “switch” that supercharges sperm for their final sprint to the egg. Before ejaculation, mammalian sperm remain in a low-energy ...

This breakthrough raised the exciting potential for a nonhormonal male birth control. Metabolism is similarly essential for sperm function, and while scientists knew that behavioral changes prior to ...

COLUMBIA — New Morning, a Columbia nonprofit dedicated to public education about and access to family planning services, and MUSC Health are joining forces to provide contraceptive care statewide. No ...

PAGE ON ITS WEBSITE. WE’VE BEEN COVERING A BILL IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE THAT COULD FURTHER LIMIT A WOMAN’S ACCESS TO ABORTION AND PLACE CRIMINAL PENALTIES ON WOMEN AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL. AND ...

Birth control in the form of pills, patches and rings may contain estrogen. Smoking while on birth control that includes estrogen increases the risk of blood clots, strokes and heart attacks, ...

WESTWEGO, La. — Robin Phillip’s fresh haircut is dyed her favorite color — green. But beneath the dye job is a scar that runs along the side of her head, the result of two craniotomies. For years, ...