After quitting most methods of birth control, you’ll return to normal fertility within a few menstrual cycles or sooner. The ...

Opinion writer Olivia Roderick shares her personal experience with birth control. Although she initially struggled with whether or not to stay on it despite the effects it had on her ...

How Birth Control Masks or Mimics Perimenopause. Hormonal birth control fundamentally alters the body's natural cycle. By supplying synthetic estrogen and/or progestin, it overrid ...

South Carolina's Senate Bill 323, also known as the Unborn Child Protection Act, would redefine life as beginning at ...

Kristin Weiland is a documentary film producer and writer with a background in crisis management and ethnographic research. She specializes in investigative and social impact documentary projects, and ...

Do birth control pills affect women’s sexual health? An expert explains how they work, myths and safe contraceptive choices.

You should not use NEXPLANON if you are pregnant or think you may be pregnant; have or have had blood clots; have liver disease or a liver tumor; have unexplained vaginal bleeding; have breast cancer ...

Courtni Jones, contraceptive counselor with the Child Poverty Action Lab's Trust Her initiative, shares birth control information with a shopper at the Bishop Bazaar on Sunday.(Azul Sordo / Special ...

Talking with parents or caregivers about sex and birth control can be daunting, and a person may feel nervous, awkward, or fearful of their reactions. Although these discussions are often beneficial, ...

Paxlovid may temporarily reduce the efficacy of combined contraceptives. While evidence is limited, it’s safest to consider using a backup method of contraception while taking Paxlovid. Paxlovid can ...