In 1886, chemist W. J. Rendell manufactured the first birth control suppository. It contained a cocoa butter shell for suppositories that melted in the body to release the medication quinine, a drug ...

Some Canadian doctors say patients on birth control need monitoring. But medical authorities in other countries increasingly ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

Federal officials had warned that the new product from the online provider of weight loss drugs might be illegal.

Hims & Hers on Saturday announced it would stop offering its copycat of the weight-loss pill Wegovy after threats of legal ...

Views writer Savannah Burke argues that cycle-tracking wellness trends spread birth control misinformation and threaten women ...

As more pharma companies invest in women’s sports, marketers believe the trend can help fuel change on the community level.

A safe, reversible option for male birth control has eluded scientists for decades, but a new pill is showing a lot of ...

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It was long believed that men wouldn't reliably use birth control, but many are signing up for clinical trials of ...

The British novelist’s third thriller, TitleThe Model PatientTitle (Union Square, Apr.), explores the fraught dynamic between ...

The rate of Long Island teenagers giving birth has plummeted in the past few decades. Birth and pregnancy rates also have ...