Kristan Hawkins is not what you might call a unifying figure. The founder and leader of Students for Life of America, a grassroots anti-abortion network, Hawkins travels to college campuses for ...

A new study published in Neuropsychopharmacology suggests that the use of oral contraceptives may influence how the brain ...

Many states have passed legislation to allow pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptives directly to individuals, instead of requiring a doctor’s prescription first. Telehealth ...

Katia Riddle is a correspondent at NPR covering mental health. She has reported extensively on the impact of events such as Hurricane Helene, Los Angeles wildfires and the loneliness epidemic. Prior ...

Charlotte Freed first got a hormonal IUD when she was a teenager. She wasn't sexually active at the time, but she wanted to be protected from pregnancy before she started college. This was also a time ...

The use of combined hormonal contraceptives is linked to a reduced risk for major heart issues in women regardless of ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court rid itself Monday of a knotty dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama administration over birth control. The court asked lower courts to take another look at ...

Social media has long been rife with misinformation about birth control, much of it slamming hormonal contraceptives for health harms (like infertility or even abortion) that it does not cause, or ...

This story is not meant to serve as medical advice and is for informational purposes only. Women around the country celebrated when the first over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill, was approved ...

More than 65 percent of women ages 15 to 49 in the United States use some form of birth control, and many of them are on hormonal birth control methods like the pill, patch, ring, implant, injections, ...

Birth control is routine for many Americans and polls show it's popular across party lines. Now, the Trump administration is withholding funds... Trump cuts threaten access to birth control for ...