The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a label expansion for Nexplanon to allow its manufacturer, Organon ...

Birth control in the US right now is full of contradictions.

The company behind the controversial app launched a wristband that tracks your temperature, heart rate, and movement while ...

Discover why Longyearbyen, a remote town in Norway, doesn’t allow birth or death—and how science and survival shape life in ...

Self-administered injectable contraceptives have been available in the United States for more than two decades, yet a new ...

How many vaccinations your child gets from birth through 12th grade may soon change after the CDC issued new guidelines.

Most Americans have never thought much about hepatitis B, and that’s precisely because the vaccine works so well.

Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor of heart disease and diabetes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome ...

There are slightly complicated procedural and legalistic issues involved, but the bigger question is why employer-provided contraception coverage is so important as to require these legal battles to ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a major safety update to the label of Depo-Provera, a widely used birth control injection. Nearly 2,000 women have filed lawsuits against ...

The decision comes as Pfizer faces lawsuits from more than 1000 women who say the company knew about the risks and didn’t warn them. The agency signed off last week on a label update for 2 versions of ...

If you took the warning label that comes with your birth control and tossed it right in the trash, you wouldn’t be alone. After all, every medication comes with a risk of side effects, and those ...