Birth control interactions occur when medications or supplements affect how well contraception works or increase side effects. These interactions vary depending on the type of birth control you use.

Posts urging women to stop using traditional oral contraceptives are exploding online, in part due to influencers promoting them with hashtags like #stopthepill, #hormonefree and #naturalbirthcontrol.

Birth control pills (also called oral contraceptives) are daily medications that contain synthetic versions of the hormones estrogen and/or progestin. These hormones prevent ovulation, thicken ...

One of the things we get wrong about estrogen is people think of estrogen as this thing that has to do with reproduction,” ...

A birth control ring is a small and flexible ring a person inserts into their vagina. The ring releases hormones that prevent pregnancy. The birth control ring is a type of hormonal contraception.

Can you get pregnant while using birth control? The short answer is yes. And it happens quite often. Almost half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned. And for almost half of those ...

Researchers have investigated whether hormone exposure throughout life may influence brain health many years later.

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 ...

You can start using most forms of nonhormonal or hormonal birth control the same day as your abortion. Your contraceptive options depend on many factors, including what type of abortion you have, how ...

Since 1970, under the federal Title X program, sexual health clinics have been permitted to administer birth control to minors, with or without parental consent, in every state. The program’s goal, ...