No drug is as sacrosanct in today’s sexually “liberated” culture as oral contraceptives. But the proliferation of the birth control pill since the 1960s has fostered a number of grave consequences for ...

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 Health ...

Two years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, new research is looking at who's switching to it and why. In the study, published Monday ...

Despite progress in improving access to family planning, misconceptions about contraception continue to prevail and influence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, new research is ...

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A new study suggests that the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the U.S. is reaching people who previously had little or no access to contraception. Researchers at Oregon Health & ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of over-the-counter birth control pills two years ago. The decision has dramatically increased access to contraception, according to a new study from ...

A new study shows access to birth control has increased following the FDA's approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill. In the two years since the pill went on the market, there's a 31.8% ...