The birth control sponge is a small, round sponge that you insert into your vagina before sex — it's disposable, easy to use, ...

Spermicide is a gel or cream you put into your vagina before sex that's designed to prevent sperm from fertilizing an egg. It's 72% to 82% effective.

Men might finally get a chance to bench their swimmers. A first-of-its-kind male birth control pill just cleared its first human safety test, raising hopes that it could soon open the door to a new ...

An uncovered mechanism that helps sperm reach and fertilize an egg could inspire non-hormonal contraception for men and women ...

WASHINGTON — Millions of people with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule ...

Two years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, new research is looking at who's switching to it and why. In the study, published Monday ...

According to posts on TikTok, hormonal birth control can cause a nearly unlimited list of ailments: Depression, irreversible infertility, acne, destruction of the gut biome, weight gain, balding, and ...

A new study shows access to birth control has increased following the FDA's approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill. In the two years since the pill went on the market, there's a 31.8% ...