Birth Control

Earlier this month, popular period-tracking app Clue announced it had received FDA clearance for a digital birth…

Exhausted and disoriented, I arrive tempest-tossed on the shores of our dystopia to tell you the good news: Apps are…

The injustice of our current contraceptive regime needs no elaboration. Enough to say that it’s bizarre, at this…

Scientists this week say they’ve found preliminary evidence that women who use birth control pills have differences…

For those antsy about getting their birth control online, a new study should offer some reassurance. With the help…

One evening last November, a young woman named Neha was feeding her infant son inside their house in Runkata, a…

Currently, when it comes to not getting pregnant, the burden falls almost entirely on women. And unless you’ve had a …

An elusive medical advance might finally be within grasp, one that could make some couples’ sex lives a lot more…

Couples in the U.S. looking to either conceive or avoid pregnancy will now have a new tool available to them. On…

A controversial birth control treatment that is alleged to have harmed thousands of women in the past two decades is…

Nearly 170,000 packs of the birth control Taytulla are being recalled by the manufacturer, Allergan, due to a…

A commonly touted theory about how women’s attraction to men works might be all wrong, suggests a new paper published

A woman contacted Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi’s team on a Friday afternoon, nine weeks and three days into an unwanted…

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would take added steps to protect women from a…

One of the latest experimental candidates for a male birth control drug is a compound that would be taken much like…

The quest to find an effective male birth control pill is like Charlie Brown from “Peanuts” trying to kick the…

In our eventual feminist utopia, birth control will be available in vending machines, water parks, and even those…

“What if, just one time, I chose differently,” Charlie Sheen said, addressing 100 or so people standing in a…

This week, Oregon passed a new law that allows women to buy hormonal contraceptives from a pharmacy without a…

I don't need to tell you there's no great birth control option right now. Hormonal contraceptives are like a…