Birth control for teens is not significantly different from birth control for adults. Options range from barrier protection to pills and implants. There is no single best option, and people should use ...

Hormonal birth control can both help and hinder chronic health conditions, depending on the specific method and the condition. Individuals with chronic conditions should consider how different birth ...

Access to hormonal birth control — such as birth control pills and patches — is getting major changes in 2024. Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the United States, ...

Telehealth services, many pharmacies, and certain organizations, such as Planned Parenthood, allow people to get birth control refills without needing to visit a doctor in person. There are many ways ...

In our post-Roe world, you may be turning to friends and the internet to learn what your birth control options are. You might be wondering, “Which birth control methods are right for me? Which are the ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated July 13, 2023, to reflect the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a nonprescription birth control pill. For the first time, people in the United ...

This year, for the first time in the roughly sixty-year history of the birth-control pill in the United States, it can be bought over the counter. You might not know about this development—many people ...

Birth control interactions occur when medications or supplements affect how well contraception works or increase side effects. These interactions vary depending on the type of birth control you use.

The physicists behind the first FDA-cleared birth control app worked on the Higgs boson. Inside Natural Cycles and the women ...

I started taking the birth control pill as a sophomore in high school to help with my acne. Most of my friends got prescriptions around then, too. I never thought twice about birth control — let alone ...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My current form of birth control is about to expire, and my partner does not want me to renew it. He knew this time was coming, but it feels like he deliberately waited until just a ...