Choosing a contraceptive method is a deeply personal decision, yet it is often shrouded in myths and old wives' tales. In India, many women hesitate to use oral contraceptive pills due to fears of ...

With several birth control options available, doctors say some methods are more effective than others and have different side effects.

Evidence shows that birth control pills containing the hormones estrogen and progestin can increase the risk of different types of cancers and decrease the risk of others.  Since 1999, the World ...

When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000 people hit the “like” button. Of the pros, the girl said her birth control made her period ...

As an OB-GYN training to be a complex family planning subspecialist at UC San Diego, I have seen misinformation about ...

What's the truth about birth control and how it relates to infertility?

Wellness expert, nutritionist and author Dr. Amy Shah joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about women's health. Are there negative consequences associated with taking long-term ...

Troubled by a pain in her ear, Kerry Sharples from Crewe, Cheshire, saw her doctor - the mum had no idea of the devastating ...

Things were bad for Allison Blonski in 2015. She was only 36, but was struggling with painful and disturbing symptoms including severe headaches and twitching in her arm. After undergoing an MRI, the ...

That sudden spinning sensation isn’t just dizziness. Here’s how hormonal shifts can hijack your balance—and what actually ...

More than 1.5 million women rely on oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) for noncontraceptive purposes, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Especially among the teenage demographic, 82% of girls between ...