For a contraceptive method that has been in use for more than five decades now and with major improvements to its brands, our relationship with the pill still remains cautious. Many women who use it ...

The study drug contained ethinyl estradiol (20 µg) and levonorgestrel (100 µg). The regimen consisted of 84 hormonally active pills followed by 7 days' worth of pills containing only ethinyl estradiol ...

For women on the oral contraceptive pill, mood changes are common and can be a reason why they stop taking it. A new study has found a link between taking the combined oral contraceptive pill and the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pregnancy rates were 0.09% when women reported taking all hormone pills vs. 1.6% when women reported missing ...

The 20th century saw humanity develop in leaps and bounds, and without a doubt one of the most revoultionary advances was oral contraceptives, more commonly known as “the pill”. Until the 1980s, the ...

One of the most common combined oral contraceptive pills has a negative impact on women's quality of life but does not increase depressive symptoms. This is shown by a major randomised, ...

August 13, 2009 — Many women are using brands of oral contraceptives that have been linked to greater risk for venous thrombosis, according to the results of 2 studies reported in the August 14 issue ...

The most commonly used and prescribed birth control pill in the U.S. was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) as carcinogenic. In ...

The contraceptive pill may impair the fear-regulating regions of a woman's brain, new research has revealed. Combined oral contraceptive (COC) pills prevent pregnancy, mainly by stopping ovulation ...