Opinion

The holy war over birth control

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) continues to battle the Little Sisters by fighting in court to strike down a religious exemption created by President Donald Trump to the contraception mandate created by ...
With thousands of lawsuits and growing concerns over long-term risks, the FDA have added a brain tumor warning to the drug's label.
A woman who developed brain tumors following long-term birth control shot use has filed a suit against the drug’s developer, Pfizer. National Cancer Institute via Unsplash A mother says years of ...
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 ...
Pfender is an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, a postdoctoral researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a research ...
Charlotte Freed first got a hormonal IUD when she was a teenager. She wasn't sexually active at the time, but she wanted to be protected from pregnancy before she started college. This was also a time ...
Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals recalled almost 27,000 packs ...
Since the approval of the first birth control pill in the 1960s, millions of women have relied on hormonal contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies, regulate periods and manage other health ...
I must say, that I think that the birth control issue with Catholics was a trial run and that it really had nothing to do with Catholics in and of itself, but everything to do with how the American ...