Birth control articles

Here’s what we know about how alcohol affects your brain, your body, and your birth control.

Whether you deal with acne all month or just around your period, birth control may be able to help.

The FDA is recommending words of caution for the label of this permanent birth control method.

If you’ve been on the fence about trying long-acting birth control, there’s no time like the present.

Active-duty servicemembers can get their birth control method without copays.

Another day, another male birth control method that won't make it to market. But let's not blame the dudes.

The answers to all your questions about virginity and its mythical guardian, the hymen.

7 ideas for spicing things up

A new study found a link between hormonal birth control methods and depression. Here's why interpreting this research is effing complicated.

New and improved IUDs are coming soon to a health care provider near you.

A drop in rates of death from ovarian cancer is yet another reason to say "thanks, birth control."

It may depend on what your period was like before you got one.