“I feel like a guinea pig,” she tells me. Essure is but one example of a knackered handful of female contraceptive technologies that persist: implants, pills, patches, rings, caps, sponges, ...

In a class action loss against Bayer for harms caused by its Essure contraceptive device, some saw familiar failures of medicine and the law when it comes to female bodies ...

EE: Ethinyl estradiol; LNG: Levonorgestrel; OC: Oral contraceptive; RR: Relative risk; VTE: Venous thromboembolism. Transdermal contraceptive patches provide a more ...

New Delhi: Igniting hopes of a breakthrough that, for the first time globally, promises to make the responsibility of family planning more equitable, an oral contraceptive pill for men has now moved ...

This discovery brings a nonhormonal contraceptive one step closer to reality. The study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the study, the researchers ...

The team behind CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC) was another casualty in the mass layoffs at HHS -- and clinicians worry what losing this critical guideline will ...

Today’s contraceptive methods don’t meet the needs of all women and girls. We’re expanding our investments in research and development to create new and better options that are informed by a deep ...

The crude incidence rate of depression for those taking HCs was 21 per 1,000 person-years. Credit: Iryna Imago / Shutterstock. According to the World Health Organization, 4% of men and 6% of women ...

The story of modern contraception is one of widespread use, but limited innovation. More than 90% of American women aged 15-49 have employed at least one form of birth control in their lives ...