A new study finds that providing people who have recently given birth access to long-acting reversible methods of contraception, such as intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants, could help prevent them from unintentionally ...
Feb 09, 2021
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Nearly half of pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned, and there's a wide gap between the most affluent women who are likely to have access to the most reliable forms of birth control and those from lower income households.
Nov 06, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Most American women between 15 and 49 years of age use birth control, according to a new U.S. government report.
Oct 20, 2020
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Black and Latinx individuals are often the focus of health educational efforts to "correct" perceived flawed beliefs about pregnancy in order to increase contraceptive use and reduce unintended pregnancies. In a study published ...
Sep 30, 2020
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About 22 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 44 report having used emergency contraception. But even though the Food and Drug Administration approved levonorgestrel—more commonly known as Plan B—for over-the-counter ...
Sep 29, 2020
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Early unintended pregnancy can have negative consequences for adolescent girls and young women. Not only may their health be at risk; so may their education, economic mobility and productivity.
Sep 25, 2020
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One in four women in this country have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner. And that's before the COVID-19 pandemic created domestic hothouses for additional potential abuse due to anxiety over ...
Sep 09, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Doctors have long suspected it, but a comprehensive new study provides more evidence that antibiotics can reduce the effectiveness of birth control pills.
Aug 19, 2020
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Each week a woman consumes alcohol during the first five to 10 weeks of pregnancy is associated with an incremental 8% increase in risk of miscarriage, according to a study by Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) researchers.
Aug 10, 2020
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Abortion rates are highest in countries that legally restrict access to terminations, but lowest in high-income countries where abortion and contraception are accessible, a new study has found.
Jul 24, 2020
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