Instead of looking up at the sky to see whether you need an umbrella, people increasingly ask virtual assistants such as Alexa. And they may be wise to do so. AI methods are powerful – capable of ...

Vets at Cairo's Giza Zoo are experimenting with birth control on their rapidly expanding population of lions. They are taking the unusual step of giving the big cats human birth control pills after a ...

Now, this imbalance is at the brink of change as a hormone-free male contraceptive pill called YCT-529 has completed its ...

A new male birth control pill passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month, and it produced hormone responses consistent with effective contraception, according ...

The story of modern contraception is one of widespread use, but limited innovation. More than 90% of American women aged 15-49 have employed at least one form of birth control in their lives, whether ...

1 in 4 sexually active women has used injectable birth control, administered into the muscle by a clinician, but many may be unaware of its association with meningioma, the most common brain tumor in ...

Carl Djerassi, the chemist widely considered the father of the birth control pill, has died. Djerrasi died of complications of cancer Friday in his San Francisco home, Stanford University spokesman ...

Earlier this year, the Trump administration scrubbed CDC guidance on birth control from government websites and froze $65 million in funding to family planning clinics that provide free or low-cost ...

Carl Djerassi, the chemist widely considered the father of the birth control pill, has died. Professor Djerrasi, 91, died of complications from cancer in his San Francisco, California, home, Stanford ...

Since the approval of the first birth control pill in the 1960s, millions of women have relied on hormonal contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies, regulate periods and manage other health ...

Certain types of birth control methods have been associated with reduced bone mineral density. The risk may be greater in people who start taking them during adolescence. Birth control medications ...