Key Takeaways Long-term exposure to estrogen might protect brain health in womenWomen who took birth control pills had ...

THOUSANDS of women who opt for four common contraceptives over other forms of birth control may be at higher risk of brain ...

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

While the FDA has approved over 20 different categories of contraceptives, only two are available for men to prevent pregnancy in their partners—condoms and vasectomies. 25% of women who use ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. When it comes to birth control, men have exactly two reliable options: condoms or a vasectomy. That’s it. For decades ...

Learn more about oral contraceptives and the impact they can have on disordered eating, and how self-monitoring may help ...

The most common formulation of birth control pills has been linked to a doubling of relative risk of heart attack and stroke, a new study finds. Contraceptive vaginal rings and skin patches formulated ...

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.

A new study shows that taking birth control pills can affect women’s memory.more Shawn Nielsen, a graduate student in neurobiology and behavior at the University of California, Irvine, conducted a ...