Taking a pill once a month is more convenient than taking one once a day. New research introduces a monthly pill and tests it in pigs. Researchers estimate that, with typical use, 9% of women in the United States who take the birth control pill become pregnant each year. A person needs to take an… Read More »
To help understand fertility patterns across demographics, researchers combed through the latest data from the National Survey of Family Growth to study contraceptive use among women. The results, published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, found that of the more than 5,500 respondents from 2015 to… Read More »
A high percentage of women around the world use some or the other form of contraception. With the introduction of hormonal contraceptive methods, it has become much easier for women to control whether they want to become pregnant or not. Oral contraceptive pills are a type of hormonal contraceptive method which consists of artificial female… Read More »