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 ...

Amid the chaos of United States politics in 2025, a largely underreported crisis is unfolding: $9.7 million worth of preventative birth control meant for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa has been ...

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 ...

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 ...