Speakers also said doctors should have conversations with young girls about whether they want to have children one day.

When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000 people hit the “like” ...

Birth control may help reduce the risk of breast, ovarian and other cancers in women. Findings suggest that women who took oral contraceptives for more than a decade cut their risk of developing oral ...

Evidence shows that birth control pills containing the hormones estrogen and progestin can increase the risk of different types of cancers and decrease the risk of others.  Since 1999, the World ...

Two years after the FDA approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, new research shows it’s effectively expanding access to contraception. Women who took nonprescription Opill (norgestrel) ...

Many women spend decades using birth control of one kind or another, except for when they’re trying to conceive or are pregnant. So when you know you’re done having babies or if you plan to stay child ...

The most commonly used and prescribed birth control pill in the U.S. was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) as carcinogenic. In ...

This week, the FDA approved a label change on Depo Provera, requiring its maker, Pfizer, to warn women about links between use of the birth control injection and brain tumors known as meningiomas.

While birth control methods have enabled women to have children when they want, hence are able to pursue their careers, for some it is a curse. Halima (name withheld for fear of stigmatisation) from ...