When I was twenty-two, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Though I experienced symptoms for years, it wasn’t until I went a full year without getting a period that I realized I ...

Hormonal contraception, including birth control pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs), is not associated with an increased prevalence of a brain pressure disorder called idiopathic intracranial ...

"I'd take the periods any day now," Kerry Sharples said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and ...

Doctors said the meningiomas could be linked to the woman using the contraceptive injections — which she had been receiving regularly for 21 years, in order to avoid getting monthly periods "I'd take ...

Birth control pills rest on a counter in Centreville, Maryland. At President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s inaugural women’s health conference this month ...

WASHINGTON — Surrounded by hot pink lights and cherry blossom pink drapes on a ballroom stage, family doctor Marguerite Duane offered a seemingly simple solution to infertility: Doctors should have ...

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As an OB-GYN training to be a complex family planning subspecialist at UC San Diego, I have seen misinformation about hormonal birth control circulating widely across the internet. Popular TikTok ...

When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000 people hit the “like” button. Of the pros, the girl said her birth control made her period ...

MACON, Ga. — A bill in the Georgia Legislature could make it easier for women to get birth control by allowing pharmacists to prescribe certain contraceptives directly, eliminating the need for some ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday in filing an amicus brief challenging federal regulations that undermined no-cost birth ...

ATLANTA — Women could get birth control drugs directly from pharmacies without needing a doctor’s prescription, according to a bill that cleared the Georgia House on Wednesday. The proposal would ...