Nearly 30% of American women have tried 5 or more methods of contraception, and they are increasingly using condoms and emergency contraception, according to 2 new reports published online February 14 ...

A landmark clinical trial in eastern and southern Africa has found no substantial difference in the risk for acquiring HIV among women using any of three common methods of contraception, but also, ...

Know effective contraception methods for men and women, from oral pills to condoms. Learn which birth control options suit your lifestyle, health, and family planning needs. Contraception also ...

The world became a better place recently when world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a milestone United Nations statement that will shape world policy for the next 15 years to ...

Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, leaving states to decide whether or not to allow abortion within their borders, it's understandable that some people have been thinking about their birth ...

In choosing a method of contraception, it is important that it not interfere with lactation or have negative effects on the infant. Nonhormonal methods of contraception, such as barrier methods or the ...

Female doctors and nurses whose specialty is family planning are seven times more likely than women in the general population to use intrauterine devices (IUDs) for their own contraception, a new ...

The "rhythm method" may kill off more embryos than other contraceptive methods, such as coils, morning after pills, and oral contraceptives, suggests an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The ...

For decades, pundits have predicted new contraceptives for men within the next 5 to 10 years. Are we really getting any closer? Judging from work presented at the second 'Future of Male Contraception' ...

The day after the presidential election, Lisabeth Collins called a Planned Parenthood near her home in Echo Park. She wanted to get an intrauterine device, more commonly called an IUD — a type of ...

There has been a shift away from the use of more reliable hormonal methods of contraception to less reliable fertility awareness methods among women requesting abortion in England and Wales over the ...