The event elevated perspectives outside standards of conventional medical care ...

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While catching up with a friend, Mallory Tatman discovered they were both getting intrauterine device (IUD) insertions in the coming weeks. “I figured it would feel like a Pap smear, like a typical ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I can hardly remember a time when I wasn’t on birth control. Doctors put me on the pill at 16 to help ...

Birth control interactions occur when medications or supplements affect how well contraception works or increase side effects. These interactions vary depending on the type of birth control you use.

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 ...

Several months ago, on a mockingly optimistic sunny morning and the start of a new month, I told myself I'd quit hormonal birth control pills. It felt like I was in middle school again, potentially ...