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 ...

Sharples, 45, said her doctor ordered some scans and bloodwork as a precaution, and she was later hit with shocking news: she ...

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 ...

My doctor and I ultimately decided on a hormonal IUD to manage my PCOS, since it also aligned with my preferred method of birth control. I’ve come to rely on this form of birth control to manage my ...

The Georgia General Assembly passed a bill allowing licensed pharmacists to dispense birth control medications without a ...

This video highlights the historical dangers of pregnancy and childbirth for women, noting that in medieval Europe, 1 in 3 ...

These women still need preventive care like birth control, pregnancy counseling, and cancer screenings. But many with ...

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 ...

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 conversations ...