Approximately 19 million U.S. women of childbearing age reside in what are known as “contraceptive deserts” due to geographic, political, economic and social barriers to birth control. Women living in ...

The first large-scale U.S.-based study to evaluate the link between an injectable form of progestin-only birth control and breast cancer risk in young women has found that recent use of a year or more ...

One in four 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 ...

When Lindsey Boynton was offered the option to give herself her birth control shot at home, she was surprised the option even existed. The method — self-injected subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone ...

Pharmacies in New Jersey are now able to sell birth control over the counter. Gov. Phil Murphy signed off on the legislation last January and it went into effect on Monday. The legislation means ...

UB pharmacy researcher Nicole Cieri-Hutcherson says pharmacist-administered injectable contraceptives are a dependable, convenient and discrete form of birth control. Photo: Douglas Levere By LAURIE ...