contraception

There’s a New Health Secretary. What Will He Mean for Women’s Health?

By Alexandra Sifferlin

14% More Men Are Using Condoms: Study

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Melinda Gates 'Deeply Troubled' by Trump Cuts to Family Planning

By Rachel Lewis

More Than Half of Teens Are Having Sex and Most Use Birth Control

By Alexandra Sifferlin
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Melinda Gates Highlights Dangers Trump's Budget Proposal Poses to Women Overseas

‘I hope you will speak up loud and clear’

By Alana Abramson / Fortune

Access to Most Effective Birth Control Could Save $12 Billion a Year

According to a new study

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Access to Most Effective Birth Control Could Save $12 Billion a Year: Study

In recent decades the U.S. has seen a drop in the rate of unintended pregnancies, thanks in part to women using more effective and long-acting birth control methods, like the IUD or the implant. Still,...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

How These States Are Fighting to Protect Reproductive Rights

Amid uncertainty over the future of reproductive health care coverage in the U.S.

By Alexandra Sifferlin

How Trump Is Trying to Win Over Women Voters

By championing child care, paid maternity leave, and over-the-counter birth control

By Charlotte Alter

Brazil Weighs Stiffer Abortion Penalties

While critics including in the UN have called on Brazil to liberalize abortion laws because of Zika, some members of the government want to toughen them

By Matt Sandy/Rio de Janeiro

How Scalia's Death Will Affect Pending Cases

The untimely death of Justice Antonin Scalia rightly will be met with sadness and many learned assessments of the long-term impact this historic figure had on the Court, the American judiciary and the country.In the...

By Massimo Calabresi

Why Latin American Women Can't Follow the Zika Advice to Avoid Pregnancy

Abortion is illegal across most of the region, and there is enormous unmet need for contraception

By Charlotte Alter

Some Young Women Aren’t Counseled About Birth Control When They Really Need It: Study

When young women are prescribed medications that can cause birth defects, many aren't counseled about the need for contraceptives, finds a new study

By Alexandra Sifferlin

More Women Are Choosing Long-Acting Birth Control

Though the pill is still the most popular

By Alexandra Sifferlin

More Women Are Getting the IUD and Implant for Birth Control

New survey data shows that long-acting contraceptives are increasingly popular

By Alexandra Sifferlin

More Women Are Getting IUDs Right After Giving Birth

A new study looks at Medicaid coverage of post-birth contraception

By Alexandra Sifferlin

FDA to Review Essure Contraceptive Device

Thousands of women have reported harmful side effects

By Tessa Berenson Rogers

Demand for the Morning-After Pill Is Soaring in Conservative India

This isn't necessarily a good thing for women's health in the region

By Joanna Plucinska

Russia Defends Imported Condom Ban, Says Lovers to Become 'Strict and Discriminating'

The nation has a major HIV/Aids problem

By Joanna Plucinska

Teen Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low

Here's what's driving the drop in teen parenting

By Alexandra Sifferlin
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