Speakers also said doctors should have conversations with young girls about whether they want to have children one day.

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Birth control in the US right now is full of contradictions. Access to contraceptives has never been easier. Many states have passed legislation to allow pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal ...

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.

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Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals recalled almost 27,000 packs ...

Charlotte Freed first got a hormonal IUD when she was a teenager. She wasn't sexually active at the time, but she wanted to be protected from pregnancy before she started college. This was also a time ...