Between condoms and vasectomies lies a vast, undeveloped chasm of male birth control. Contraline, a device startup that released early, positive clinical data in a press release on Thursday, hopes to ...

Approximately 19 million U.S. women of childbearing age reside in what are known as “contraceptive deserts” due to geographic, political, economic and social barriers to birth control. Women living in ...

The first large-scale U.S.-based study to evaluate the link between an injectable form of progestin-only birth control and breast cancer risk in young women has found that recent use of a year or more ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — L.R. Fox is the CEO of a birth control company, so you’ll have to excuse the excitement when he starts talking about, well, birth control. It’s “the holy grail,” he says. A ...

An intravenous treatment for men can effectively prevent pregnancy, according to a new study published in The Journal of Endocrinology & Metabolism. Researchers tested the efficacy of the injectable ...

When it comes to their sexual health, what women don’t know can hurt them. But University Health Center officials are trying to help women improve their health by educating them about birth control ...

While there are many forms of birth control that use progestin, "no increased meningioma risk has been found with combined ...

As if the AIDS crisis in Africa wasn’t bad enough, scientists now believe that a birth control method that’s popular in the eastern and southern parts of the continent is increasing women’s HIV risk.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Injectable birth control is known to lower bone density, but women may be able to limit the loss by not smoking and getting even moderate amounts of calcium, a new study ...

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