The morning-after pill consists of a high dose of female hormones - the same hormones found in the normal contraceptive pill. It needs to be taken within 72 hours of sex, and the earlier it is ...

A study published in the BMJ looks at hormonal contraceptives and the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, Clinical Director at the British Heart Foundation and consultant ...

a scientific advance necessary for the creation of the Pill. By the 1940s scientists had figured out the importance of hormones in the female reproductive cycle. They established that once a woman ...

It will also be cheaper for women to get long-acting contraceptives and menopause assessments, in a significant package that ...

Freedom for Women A generation earlier, Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick, the "mothers" of the Pill, had insisted that female control of contraception was nothing less than a precondition ...

After we swallow a pill, it doesn't take long ... scientists have discovered that estrogen in rivers and lakes can cause male fish to develop female biomarkers like ovaries. Other studies have ...