Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, leaving states to decide whether or not to allow abortion within their borders, it's understandable that some people have been thinking about their birth ...

A landmark clinical trial in eastern and southern Africa has found no substantial difference in the risk for acquiring HIV among women using any of three common methods of contraception, but also, ...

Natural birth control methods include monitoring the time of ovulation and taking basal temperature readings. However, these are not usually as effective at preventing pregnancy as hormonal ...

There has been a shift away from the use of more reliable hormonal methods of contraception to less reliable fertility awareness methods among women requesting abortion in England and Wales over the ...

Let’s look at how far women’s reproductive health options have come in the last 100 years. In an era when people have a number of effective, available options to prevent unintended pregnancy, it’s ...

As more and more women become concerned about the side effects of the contraceptive pill, natural methods of cycle tracking have become more popular. Some even claim that cycle tracking and fertility ...

Susan Walker has received funding from Bayer PLC and has been a consultant to NaturalCycles. If you have access to it, it’s easy to take today’s contraception for granted. But key discoveries over the ...

Whether in a rural or urban setting, awareness about contraception is crucial. Most importantly, everyone has the right to make reproductive choices and should know about the different avenues ...

The VTE rate ratios were significantly greater for all forms of hormonal contraception, except for progestin-only pills, compared with non-use. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) continues to be a risk ...

“This is a convenient method for patients to use pills they already have,” she says. Both doses of pills should be taken as soon as possible, ideally within 72 hours (three days) of unprotected sex, ...

Certain hormonal contraceptives, such as norethindrone, combined oral contraceptive pills, the contraceptive patch, and the birth control ring, may allow a person to delay their period. More research ...