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A neuroscientist explains how hormonal contraceptives work − and how stress may increase or decrease depression risk while on them.
TikTok and Instagram misinformation is reportedly causing some women to stop taking their birth control.
With the approval of the first over-the-counter oral contraceptive, pharmacists stand to play an ever-increasing role in helping expand access to reproductive health care in the post-Roe era.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on mifepristone keeps the drug accessible for now, but its future is still in limbo.
A computer modelling study suggests that oestrogen levels could get lowered by as much as 92%.
It was previously thought that only combined hormonal contraceptives carried an elevated breast cancer risk.
There’s a long history in our society of period pain being played down, or just considered “normal”. But there’s plenty of evidence in the historical records that women have always experienced it.
The term voluntary sterilization, referring to the choice to receive permanent birth control, arose as a contrast to the involuntary, or forced, sterilization that stems from the eugenics movement.
Some states already allow pharmacists to provide birth control to patients with a prescription. But FDA approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill could greatly expand access.
Research shows hormonal contraceptives may have small but significant effects on behaviour.
If you’re preparing to come off the pill, it’s hard to know what to expect, particularly if you’ve been on it for a long time.
The hormones in the pill can cause or exacerbate depression, and the type you use is an important factor.
Any effects you might notice after stopping birth control are typically due to the return of your natural menstrual cycle.
With the Supreme Court likely to strike down constitutional protection for abortion, a centuries-old debate over its morality and legality has been reignited.
Some evidence shows that hormonal fluctuations throughout the menstrual cycle can both increase and decrease athletic performance.
Doctors hear many of the same basic questions about sex from their patients.
The ban on the pill led to much sorrow and frustration, but determined couples found imaginative ways to cope and work around it.
Long-term or historical use of oral contraceptives may lead to an increased risk of depression in later years; understanding the risk will better inform the decision whether or not to take the pill.
Unlike condoms, which need to be used every time with sex, or the pill, which must be taken every day, LARC doesn’t require any action after placement in the body and is immediately reversible.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Contraception, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Lecturer in Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Essex
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Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer - Hospital Clínic Barcelona / IDIBAPS. Profesor Agregado de Farmacología Clínica, Universitat de Barcelona
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PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder
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Deputy Director of Clinical Studies, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Practice, The Daffodil Centre, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, University of Sydney
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Reader in History and Deputy Dean of Humanities (Research), University of Essex
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Professor in Gender History and the History of Sexuality, The University of Queensland
