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Aug
11
The TLDR: Vitamin D levels benefit from supplements (duh), but birth control with estrogen may also make a difference.
A new study of more than 1,600 African American women in Detroit has shown that two big factors affected participants' vitamin D levels: whether they took a supplement and what kind of birth control they used.
In which we squint into the distance and report on everything we see over yonder.
We love to roll out the red carpet when a new method of birth control becomes available. We’ve also been known to get excited about birth control innovations that are still in the works. Here’s what we see on the horizon from where we're standing in 2016.
Apr
12
More good news from the left coast: Californians can get the pill, the patch, the ring, or the shot prescribed directly at the pharmacy.
Back in January 2016 we wrote that Oregon had made some hormonal birth control methods available directly from pharmacists and that a similar law was about to go into effect in California. Well, Californians, the wait is over—pharmacists in your state will now be able to prescribe birth control!
These mail-order services make getting your birth control oh-so-easy.
These online services are making it possible to order birth control pills, the patch, the ring, and emergency contraception online and have it delivered right to your door.