If women wind up pregnant from faulty pill packets, product liability lawsuits or “wrongful pregnancy” cases — reminiscent of medical malpractice — could be filed.
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FDA Reviews Popular Birth Control Pills for Blood Clot Risk
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it is reviewing the safety of birth control pills like Bayer’s Yaz and Yasmin because of concerns that they may raise women’s risk of blood clots more than other pills.
Developing a once-a-month male birth control pill?
In the search for a form of male contraception that can rival the female birth control pill, a team of researchers from Israel may have just made a breakthrough. As the Telegraph reports, in initial animal trials the team of researchers found that a pill they’d developed — which works by stripping sperm of a protein necessary to
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Birth control: Can the pill lower your sex drive?
Fifty years after the birth control pill first emerged, we are still grappling with how it has impacted society — and our private lives. A new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine suggests that women on oral contraceptives may experience lower sex drive than those not taking the pill, adding to a varied body of research
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Why Anti-Abortion Activists Leave Birth Control Out of the Debate
In case you missed Senator Jon Kyl’s recent, nonsensical argument for defunding Planned Parenthood, the New York Times’ Gail Collins had an incisive take on it last week. Much of the debate over the value of Planned Parenthood …
Study: The ‘Morning-After’ Pill Works the Day Before Too
The morning-after pill is approved for use as an emergency contraceptive, meant to be taken the day after unprotected sex, but a new study suggests women might be able to use it as regular birth control as well.
Male birth control: stopping sperm with ultrasound?
Among the 78 research projects to receive $100,000 grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation earlier this week as part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, is an effort by researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to develop a non-invasive, reversible form of birth control for men — using
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Did Johnson & Johnson Bury Data on Ortho-Evra’s Health Risks?
It’s should be common knowledge that the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Ortho-Evra birth-control patch has more risks than the birth control pill (it’s on the label) — because it exposes women to higher levels of hormone, it carries a …
