A drug candidate called YCT-529, which creator YourChoice Therapeutics is angling to make the first non-hormonal contraceptive pill for men, entered its Phase 1 clinical trial on December 13 in the ...

Women taking certain types of hormonal contraceptives may be more likely to develop venous thromboembolism (VTE) if they’re also taking a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), observational ...

Doctors sound off about Phexxi birth control, a non-hormonal birth control gel, explaining what it is, how it works, the pros, and the cons. In the 60 years since the FDA approved the first birth ...

Researchers in Freiburg have discovered a mechanism by which plant hormones are specifically regulated to adapt growth to environmental ...

Almost two-thirds of U.S. women of reproductive age use some kind of contraception, according to the latest federal data. And millions of them use methods that contain hormones, including birth ...

Using NSAIDs and hormonal birth control together increased the overall risk of blood clots in women in the study, but the researchers stressed that the overall risk is still low. When you purchase ...

Popular pain relievers — such as ibuprofen, diclofenac, and naproxen — have been historically linked by research to a heightened risk of developing a venous thromboembolism (VTE), a blood clot that ...

Debra Patt, MD, PhD, MBA, executive vice president at Texas Oncology, explains the small potential risk of breast cancer associated with hormonal birth control. Hormonal birth control carries risks of ...