Birth control is about to be available without a prescription for $20 a month online or at your local pharmacy. Opill, an oral contraceptive, is the first hormonal birth control to become ...

When you stop hormonal birth control, your body is no longer getting ... depressive and insomnia symptoms in adult women with and without depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Millions rely on hormonal birth control ... Most people can stay on birth control for years or decades without problems. However, your specific health needs may impact the timing that's best ...

The birth control pill, for example, stops you from ovulating. It overrides your natural hormones by giving you a steady stream of hormones to prevent ovulation. “If you take it properly ...

Birth control has revolutionized people’s ability to take charge of their health, pursue their dreams, and decide if and when ...

A different combination of hormones may work better for you.” If you want to switch birth control pills, chat with a medical professional about how to switch without having gaps in your birth ...

Carrie Cwiak, MD MPH, Director, Family Planning Division, Emory University School of Medicine The chance of a woman getting pregnant over a year without ... not on a hormonal birth control method ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer adds Michigan to the majority of states that allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed two bills into law earlier this week that will allow pharmacists in the state to ...

The birth control pill jumps into this relay system midstream, delivering two key sex hormones that trick the ... gland steps down production of FSH. Without FSH from the pituitary gland, no ...

Without an egg there's nothing for sperm ... for sperm to reach the uterus in the first place. Just like other hormonal birth control options, the patch requires a prescription.