"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available in the U.S., is now available to order ...

Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill, in July 2023. Now, the pills are ready for consumers to purchase at many of the biggest pharmacies ...

Fifty years after the Food and Drug Administration approved a prescription birth control pill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill has become available to the public without a prescription ...

The Food and Drug Administration this week approved the country’s first birth control pill to be sold to Americans over the counter without a prescription – 50 years after it first appeared on the ...

Ten years after scrapping its controversial one-child policy, China’s policymakers are scrambling to reverse the country’s ...

On July 13, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally allowed women to access one birth control pill over the counter. The FDA signaled in May that this was likely to happen after an advisory ...

A hormone-free male contraceptive pill called YCT-529 has successfully completed its first human safety trial, marking an ...

The pill was cleared by the FDA for use without a prescription last July. Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill that can be purchased without a prescription, will be available later ...

Starting January 1, Beijing will impose a tax on contraceptives, risking limiting access to condoms in a country where 97% of ...