Approximately 19 million U.S. women of childbearing age reside in what are known as “contraceptive deserts” due to geographic, political, economic and social barriers to birth control. Women living in ...

The first large-scale U.S.-based study to evaluate the link between an injectable form of progestin-only birth control and breast cancer risk in young women has found that recent use of a year or more ...

When Lindsey Boynton was offered the option to give herself her birth control shot at home, she was surprised the option even existed. The method — self-injected subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone ...

An intravenous treatment for men can effectively prevent pregnancy, according to a new study published in The Journal of Endocrinology & Metabolism. Researchers tested the efficacy of the injectable ...

Some people have concerns about the long-term effects of reversible birth control on fertility. However, no scientific evidence links reversible birth control (such as hormonal birth control pills, ...

UB pharmacy researcher Nicole Cieri-Hutcherson says pharmacist-administered injectable contraceptives are a dependable, convenient and discrete form of birth control. Photo: Douglas Levere By LAURIE ...