A new smartphone app offers to prescribe birth control without seeing a doctor in person. It's called Nurx and it's now available in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Once you download the app, the patient ...

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An OBGYN told Newsweek it's important to create a space where conversations about body awareness are open, honest and accessible.

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Femasys Inc. announced the achievement of CE mark certification for the FemBloc delivery system, marking it as the first regulatory approval in the world for a non-surgical permanent birth control ...

A new study shows access to birth control has increased following the FDA's approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill. In the two years since the pill went on the market, there's a 31.8% ...

The first birth control pill that people can buy without a prescription, called Opill, is shipping to stores this week.

When a symptom is common to so many different underlying causes, prescribing the symptom and not the cause does no lasting good. It masks without treating. And worse, it results in the decrease in ...

Maya Roman steps out of a building on DePaul University’s campus onto a public sidewalk. She pulls a brown paper bag out of a black tote and, without opening it, hands it to a classmate with bright ...