When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000 people hit the “like” button. Of the pros, the girl said her birth control made her period ...

This has become known as the ‘nocebo effect’ which is thought to be leading to young women quitting birth control.

As an OB-GYN training to be a complex family planning subspecialist at UC San Diego, I have seen misinformation about ...

With several birth control options available, doctors say some methods are more effective than others and have different side effects.

Wellness expert, nutritionist and author Dr. Amy Shah joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about women's health. Are there negative consequences associated with taking long-term ...

Evidence shows that birth control pills containing the hormones estrogen and progestin can increase the risk of different types of cancers and decrease the risk of others.  Since 1999, the World ...

AYVAKIT ® (avapritinib) is a prescription medicine used to treat adults with indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM). AYVAKIT is not recommended in people with low platelet counts (less than 50 x 10 9 /L ...

Approval expands indication of JUXTAPID® to include children 2 years of age and older with HoFH. This announcement was made ...

And how to tell if you might need something else entirely.

Doctors stress that vaccine necessity doesn't go out the window just because the weather is warmer. "Even if flu season is ...

The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. has been escalating, with sharp increases since 2021 and with each ...

Of them all—good and bad—one particular conversation lingered. A woman once remarked to Eckert how learning about birth control as a young person gifted her with the language to disseminate an ...