The Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of over-the-counter birth control pills two years ago. The decision has dramatically increased access to contraception, according to a new study from ...

(CNN) — About two years after the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the United States, a new study suggests that many people who may not have ...

In much of the world, “the Pill” has long been available on retail shelves, alongside vitamins and aspirin and the like. Not so in the U.S.—until very recently, when the Food and Drug Administration ...

An op-ed in today’s New York Times argues, “Women don’t need a doctor to tell them if they need cold medicine or condoms, and they shouldn’t need a doctor’s permission to take the pill.” Is that true?