About two years after the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the ...

Doctors debunk 5 common birth control myths Separating fact from fiction around the pill.

And birth control pills, in general, do not provide the same type of hormonal balance needed for menopausal women. HRT is ...

Doctors and exercise physiologists explain how your birth control method might affect your workout routine and athletic performance, and what to do about it.

I can hardly remember a time when I wasn’t on birth control. Doctors put me on the pill at 16 to help manage the agonizingly heavy periods that had plagued me since I was 11 years old. For me, getting ...

Social media is full of videos saying hormonal contraception can hurt you and promoting natural alternatives. How did the ...

Hormonal birth control is a fact of life for millions of women. In the U.S. alone, more than 60 million women of reproductive age have used contraceptives according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Doctors and exercise physiologists explain how your birth control method might affect your workout routine and athletic performance, and what to do about it.