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 ...

Hormonal Imbalance Effects: People use the pill to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Let us tell you whether this pill can cause cancer or if it's a myth. Do birth control pills cause cancer? Do birth ...

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 ...

Side effects experienced when taking oral contraception may be affected by women's expectations and beliefs about the pill, according to an exploratory study by psychologists. Researchers at the ...

Both high- and low-dose birth control pills prevent pregnancy equally well. For some people, low-dose birth control may have ...

Women who take a certain type of prescription birth control pill as teens may have a much higher rate of depression, a new study out of Sweden's Uppsala University suggested, compared to those who do ...

Oral contraception is prescribed to women for a variety of reasons, including pregnancy prevention, endometriosis, PMS, and heavy periods - but new research has suggested that their use increases the ...