Recent government funding for women’s health included millions to expand trials of pharmacists prescribing the oral ...

Using hormonal birth control methods, such as "the pill," may increase users' risk of blood clots, strokes and heart attacks, ...

The most common formulation of birth control pills has been linked to a doubling of relative risk of heart attack and stroke, ...

A real-world Danish registry study showed a significant increased relative risk, but small absolute risk, for stroke and ...

However, each woman's absolute risk remained low: Use of the estrogen/progestin pill translated to one extra stroke for every ...

Data suggest a dose-related association between progestin-only products and arterial thrombotic risk. Various hormonal contraceptives were linked to incident cardiovascular disease in an analysis of ...

Many women are shunning contraception, using ‘natural’ tracking, which corresponds to a rise in abortions. Read more on ...

“Wanted: 15 healthy Chinese males willing to help mankind, receive free medical care for 10 months, be paid $200 and test a new male contraceptive ‘pill’,” reported the South China Morning ...

It’s a little pill with big responsibilities. But despite its primary role to prevent pregnancy, the contraceptive pill (or ‘the Pill’) could also help reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, according to ...

Ahead of World Cancer Day, researchers have looked into the effects of taking ‘the pill’ on the risk of cancer in women. Taking the contraceptive pill could dramatically slash the risk of ...