Under the 2024 schedule, which has been discontinued, babies could have received anywhere from 12 to 30 shots before their second birthday ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.” ...

It’s a weird time to talk about contraceptives. Here's what the debate is missing.

Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor of heart disease and diabetes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome ...

There are slightly complicated procedural and legalistic issues involved, but the bigger question is why employer-provided contraception coverage is so important as to require these legal battles to ...

If you took the warning label that comes with your birth control and tossed it right in the trash, you wouldn’t be alone. After all, every medication comes with a risk of side effects, and those ...

It’s a taxing time for sweethearts in China. After a 30-year exemption, the country is slapping a 13% sales tax on condoms, birth control pills and devices, hoping to boost its declining birth rates ...

Denmark will compensate victims in a decades-long scandal in which thousands of Greenlandic girls and young women were fitted with birth control devices by Danish doctors, often without their consent ...

Birth control does not delay the biological onset of menopause. Menopause occurs when the ovaries stop releasing eggs and estrogen levels drop permanently, marking the end of reproductive function.

As misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media ...

As misinformation about women's health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media ...

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 ...