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Recent government funding for women’s health included millions to expand trials of pharmacists prescribing the oral contraceptive pill. What do the experts think?
Yaz and Yasmin protect against pregnancy and can help manage some hormone-related conditions.
For most, the benefits of being on the pill far outweigh the side effects.
A neuroscientist explains how hormonal contraceptives work − and how stress may increase or decrease depression risk while on them.
TikTok and Instagram misinformation is reportedly causing some women to stop taking their birth control.
With the approval of the first over-the-counter oral contraceptive, pharmacists stand to play an ever-increasing role in helping expand access to reproductive health care in the post-Roe era.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on mifepristone keeps the drug accessible for now, but its future is still in limbo.
A computer modelling study suggests that oestrogen levels could get lowered by as much as 92%.
It was previously thought that only combined hormonal contraceptives carried an elevated breast cancer risk.
There’s a long history in our society of period pain being played down, or just considered “normal”. But there’s plenty of evidence in the historical records that women have always experienced it.
The term voluntary sterilization, referring to the choice to receive permanent birth control, arose as a contrast to the involuntary, or forced, sterilization that stems from the eugenics movement.
Some states already allow pharmacists to provide birth control to patients with a prescription. But FDA approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill could greatly expand access.
Research shows hormonal contraceptives may have small but significant effects on behaviour.
If you’re preparing to come off the pill, it’s hard to know what to expect, particularly if you’ve been on it for a long time.
The hormones in the pill can cause or exacerbate depression, and the type you use is an important factor.
Any effects you might notice after stopping birth control are typically due to the return of your natural menstrual cycle.
With the Supreme Court likely to strike down constitutional protection for abortion, a centuries-old debate over its morality and legality has been reignited.
Some evidence shows that hormonal fluctuations throughout the menstrual cycle can both increase and decrease athletic performance.
Doctors hear many of the same basic questions about sex from their patients.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Contraception, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Practice, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh
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Reader in History and Deputy Dean of Humanities (Research), University of Essex
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Lecturer in Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Essex
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PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist, Monash University
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Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer - Hospital Clínic Barcelona / IDIBAPS. Profesor Agregado de Farmacología Clínica, Universitat de Barcelona
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Senior lecturer in reproductive Biology, University of Sheffield
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Deputy Director of Clinical Studies, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University
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Professor in Gender History and the History of Sexuality, The University of Queensland