Drug regulators and maker of a new contraceptive pill have agreed on a plan that would put the morning-after pill on the list of over-the-counter medicines within weeks. Barr Labs, the manufacturer of the new birth control pill, Plan B, said that it would resubmit a second application and Susan...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Seasonique, an extended-cycle birth control pill that limits menstrual periods to just four times a year. According to The Associated Press, the pill that has to be taken for 84 days...

AP - For young women with a world of choices, even that monthly curse, the menstrual period, is optional.

Harvard researchers, in efforts to develop the next generation of birth control, say an extensive knowledge of how sperm and egg unite is critical to the future of fertility and birth control drugs. David Clapham and Yuriy Kurichok of...

According to a new study, imprisoned women are much more likely to start using birth control when it is offered to them in prison than through community health services after their release. Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown...