With thousands of lawsuits and growing concerns over long-term risks, the FDA have added a brain tumor warning to the drug's label.

A woman who developed brain tumors following long-term birth control shot use has filed a suit against the drug’s developer, Pfizer. National Cancer Institute via Unsplash A mother says years of ...

Pfender is an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, a postdoctoral researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a research ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals recalled almost 27,000 packs ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) continues to battle the Little Sisters by fighting in court to strike down a religious exemption created by President Donald Trump to the contraception mandate created by ...

The most commonly used and prescribed birth control pill in the U.S. was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) as carcinogenic. In ...

Charlotte Freed first got a hormonal IUD when she was a teenager. She wasn't sexually active at the time, but she wanted to be protected from pregnancy before she started college. This was also a time ...

The Montana Board of Pharmacy took no action Wednesday after hearing comment on the issue of pharmacists who refuse to dispense contraceptives because of religious beliefs. Montana currently has no ...

More than 65 percent of women ages 15 to 49 in the United States use some form of birth control, and many of them are on hormonal birth control methods like the pill, patch, ring, implant, injections, ...

The birth control patch, also called the contraceptive patch, releases hormones to prevent pregnancy. A person can apply the patch to certain areas of clean, dry, hairless skin where tight clothing ...