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Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor of heart disease and diabetes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) even if those women ...
Dec 23, 2025
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Current medical guidelines discourage the use of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) among people who experience migraine with aura—a type of migraine accompanied by temporary neurological symptoms—due to a heightened ...
Dec 19, 2025
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Participants in a study who self-reported a stronger desire to have children showed a weaker preference for younger faces compared to those with a weaker desire to have children, according to a study by Jingheng Li and colleagues ...
Dec 3, 2025
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Why should women in British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon have access to free contraception while the rest of Canadians do not? Our new research, published in the British Medical Journal and JAMA ...
Oct 11, 2025
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A new UBC-led study finds that migrant youth in Canada are less likely to be sexually active than their Canadian-born peers—but among those who are, contraception use is declining. The findings point to systemic barriers ...
Sep 17, 2025
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Side effects experienced when taking oral contraception may be affected by women's expectations and beliefs about the pill, according to an exploratory study by psychologists.
Sep 15, 2025
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Two years ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of an over-the-counter birth control pill for the first time in the United States without a prescription.
Aug 18, 2025
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Misleading birth control advice on TikTok is exposing young people to an increased risk of unplanned pregnancies, according to new research by La Trobe University.
Aug 12, 2025
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The National Cancer Institute and University of Oxford report that oral contraceptive use is not associated with increased liver cancer risk, based on a population-based analysis of more than 1.5 million women and a review ...
A significant opportunity to increase women's access to the most effective form of contraception and abortion care is being missed in Australia, according to new research from Monash University's SPHERE Center of Research ...
Jun 19, 2025
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