Surgeon general pick Casey Means stood by her past claims that birth control has "horrifying health risks" and softened her ...

Birth control may help reduce the risk of breast, ovarian and other cancers in women. Findings suggest that women who took oral contraceptives for more than a decade cut their risk of developing oral ...

Many women spend decades using birth control of one kind or another, except for when they’re trying to conceive or are pregnant. So when you know you’re done having babies or if you plan to stay child ...

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 ...

This week, the FDA approved a label change on Depo Provera, requiring its maker, Pfizer, to warn women about links between use of the birth control injection and brain tumors known as meningiomas.

Things were bad for Allison Blonski in 2015. She was only 36, but was struggling with painful and disturbing symptoms ...

While birth control methods have enabled women to have children when they want, hence are able to pursue their careers, for some it is a curse. Halima (name withheld for fear of stigmatisation) from ...