It takes one week for oral birth control to work or to start working again if you missed two pills. Copper IUDS work up to five days retroactively.

Families keep telling leaders the same thing: make everyday life with kids workable and we will respond. Work from home does ...

Birth control can treat the symptoms of endometriosis like pelvic pain and period cramping. But it's a short term solution to ...

Usually, it takes around a year to get pregnant after stopping birth control, which allows for your cycles to return to ...

A new partnership with MUSC Health and contraceptive access program No Drama aims to expand birth control access amid threats ...

Myths about birth control have long proliferated in the US (thanks in part to the abysmal state of sex ed), but recent events have amplified their spread—namely, the rise of influencers sharing ...

In mid-September 2025, a claim spread online that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration had said birth control pills and IUDs were abortions. Here's what the Trump administration said, ...

Explore the history of birth control and the pioneering woman whose work transformed reproductive healthcare and women’s rights around the world. Former FBI Director and Trump critic James Comey ...

The Trump administration has been trying to destroy almost $10 million worth of taxpayer-funded birth control and other contraceptives that were meant for women in low-income countries. The vast ...

Contraception is often used to prevent pregnancies and manage menstrual cycles—which is exactly why Sandra Somarakis, now 61, and Nicole Ryan, 60, chose it for over a decade. Both women opted for ...

That's why when Redditor u/Wise_Celery_355 recently asked, "Doctors on Reddit, what medical myth do you still hear surprisingly often in the US?" thousands of doctors took to the comment section to ...

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously on Friday to shift away from a broad recommendation for Covid-19 vaccines to say that people who want one must ...