About two years after the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the United States, a new study suggests that many people who may not have had access ...

Birth control pills don’t actually contain progesterone — they contain a synthetic version of it called progestin. Progesterone is a naturally occurring hormone in the body. The adrenal cortex, ...

Hi, it’s Satviki in Mumbai. President Donald Trump’s tariffs reached the health care sector last week. While levies are on patented drugs for now, the outsized reliance on Indian generics, especially ...

Last week, Axios reported that OB-GYNs “have seen a wave of patients quitting hormonal birth control.” According to Tina Reed, the author of the Axios Vitals newsletter, there’s a small surge of ...

The internet is awash with stories of women throwing out their oral contraception. New data suggests a different narrative. Credit...Eric Helgas for The New York Times Supported by By Alisha ...

Researchers began testing a first-of-its-kind non-hormonal male birth control pill this week, a promising step for male contraceptive care as previous hormonal methods faced challenges like too many ...