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

When a symptom is common to so many different underlying causes, prescribing the symptom and not the cause does no lasting good. It masks without treating. And worse, it results in the decrease in ...

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 ...

Surrounded by hot pink lights and cherry blossom pink drapes on a ballroom stage, family doctor Marguerite Duane offered a seemingly simple solution to infertility: Doctors should have conversations ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals recalled almost 27,000 packs ...

The decisions on birth control are important. Couples are interested in efficient long-term solutions. There are numerous family planning possibilities. The hormonal techniques influence the whole ...

Posts urging women to stop using traditional oral contraceptives are exploding online, in part due to influencers promoting them with hashtags like #stopthepill, #hormonefree and #naturalbirthcontrol.

Kristan Hawkins is not what you might call a unifying figure. The founder and leader of Students for Life of America, a grassroots anti-abortion network, Hawkins travels to college campuses for ...

Florida is the third-most restrictive state for birth control access behind Kansas and Mississippi. That's according to a new scorecard published by the Population Reference Bureau, a nonpartisan ...

Social media has long been rife with misinformation about birth control, much of it slamming hormonal contraceptives for health harms (like infertility or even abortion) that it does not cause, or ...