BANGKOK — BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has begun using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try and curb a growing problem where human and…
Read more Thailand uses a birth control vaccine to curb its elephant populationAs misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in…
Read more Nuance needed on birth control research study resultsCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sending women who get abortions to prison for decades. Outlawing IUDs. Sharply restricting in-vitro fertilization. These are the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in…
Read more South Carolina Looks at Most Restrictive Abortion Bill in the US as Opponents Keep Pushing LimitsElina Berglund, the co-founder and co-CEO of Natural Cycles, was user zero for the first-ever FDA-cleared birth control app. Now she’s building for the next phase of her…
Read more This Birth-Control App Aims to Serve a Women’s Health Taboo—With a Multibillion Dollar MarketTwo years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, new research is looking at who’s switching to it and why. In…
Read more Nearly a third of people using over-the-counter birth control pills previously used nothing, study findsWashington — People with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter birth control methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for…
Read more Condoms, other over-the-counter birth control methods should be fully covered by insurance, White House saysNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has shot down Tennessee’s attempt to collect millions of dollars in family planning funds without complying with federal rules requiring…
Read more Appeals court spikes Tennessee’s bid to get family planning dollars despite abortion ruleRepublicans get very huffy when people accuse them of hating women and wanting to control pregnant people’s bodies—yet instead of proving that neither of those things are true,…
Read more Republicans Proudly Declare They’re Against Making Contraception a Federal RightBOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is leading a group of Democratic chief executives in urging Congress to approve a bill that would protect access to contraception. The Right…
Read more Healey pushes for federal contraception protectionsNew York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to…
Read more How to get rid of NYC rats without brutality? Birth control is one idea3/27: Prime Time with John Dickerson – CBS News Watch CBS News Jeff Glor reports on the NTSB’s focus in the Baltimore bridge collapse investigation, an interview with…
Read more 3/27: Prime Time with John DickersonThe Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its victim services that has held up emergency contraception funding for victims of sexual…
Read more Iowa AG is still working on audit that’s holding up contraception money for rape victimsclick to enlarge Courtesy of YDSA UCF students organize for free and accessible emergency contraception on campus. Access to abortion care in Florida and across the country remains…
Read more University of Central Florida students advocate for free emergency contraception on campusNeed help losing weight or handling depression? How about a pill that lowers cholesterol and treats erectile dysfunction? Online subscription services for care have grown far beyond their…
Read more Subscription-based health care can deliver medications to your door — but its rise concerns some expertsLimya Harvey and Cydney Mumford set up a folding table a few times a month on the University of Texas-San Antonio campus to give away kits containing emergency…
Read more Grassroots college networks distribute emergency contraceptives on campusAsk any female young millennial or older Gen Z about birth control, and there’s a good chance that they were put on it at a young age. Many…
Read more Can Birth Control Cause Strokes? What Studies ShowNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s top legal chief says the federal government is wrongly withholding millions of dollars in family planning funds after the state refused to comply with…
Read more Tennessee attorney general sues federal government over abortion rule blocking fundingSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a bill on Sunday that would have made free condoms available all public high school students, arguing it was too…
Read more California governor vetoes bill to make free condoms available for high school students, citing costNEW YORK — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $200 million to help save the lives of mothers and children during child birth, as the largest American…
Read more Gates Foundation commits $200 million to pay for medical supplies and contraceptionThousands of Tydemy brand birth control pills have been recalled, the Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday, after testing by drugmaker Lupin Pharmaceuticals found that two lots they…
Read more Thousands of Tydemy birth control pills recalled, may be ineffective, FDA warns
