When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000 people hit the “like” button. Of the pros, the girl said her birth control made her period ...

Despite being prescribed to many, many, women and often from a young age, birth control pills are seriously under-studied. They’ve been getting prescribed for decades in the UK and as plenty of us ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this file photo, a one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed. When her period first arrived when she was 12 ...

Opill (norgestrel) is an over-the-counter oral birth control pill. Opill can cause side effects that range from mild to serious. Examples include irregular periods, headache, and nausea. The Food and ...

Evidence shows that birth control pills containing the hormones estrogen and progestin can increase the risk of different types of cancers and decrease the risk of others.  Since 1999, the World ...

A male birth control pill has been found to be safe in early-stage clinical trials without any negative side effects, researchers have said. The new hormone-free pill, which aims to decrease sperm ...

Millions of American women take a little pill every day to avoid getting pregnant. Many believe it is completely safe. But several studies now connect certain types of birth control to higher risks of ...

About 150 million women around the world take the pill, mostly for birth control but also to regulate periods or reduce acne. The combined (estrogen and progesterone) pill and progesterone-only pill ...

What if we told you that a so-called male contraceptive pill, hormone-free and with no side effects, had just passed its first clinical trial with flying colors? You read that right: no pain, no loss ...

The mother of a young woman who died suddenly after suffering a blood clot caused by the contraceptive pill is calling for packaging to contain clearer warnings. An inquest heard Áine Rose Hurst, 19, ...

When her period first arrived when she was 12, Hannah LaCroix said her cramps were painful to the point where she struggled to get out of bed. Her menstrual discomfort mostly subsided, she said, once ...