The Swedish Medical Products Agency has closed its investigation into Natural Cycles, a new fertility-tracking app that supposedly doubles as “digital birth control,” finding the app is safe to use as contraceptive. Though a hospital in Stockholm linked 37 unplanned pregnancies to the app, the Swedish MPA says Natural…
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration gave marketing approval to Natural Cycles, an app that dubs itself “digital birth control.” It’s the first time a fertility-tracking app has gotten the official OK to advertise itself as birth control, which might seem an exciting leap into the baby-preventing future of our…
Bayer Pharmaceuticals paid doctors millions of dollars to promote Essure over the past five years, CNN reports.
Wendy Vitter, Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning.
According to documents obtained by Politico, the Department of Human and Health Services (HHS) under Trump worked with a conservative group on a letter announcing states no longer needed to comply with the Obama-era policy that made it harder for them to end Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.
Over the past decade, birth rates in the U.S. have dropped to a historic low, with several contributing factors such as the dipping economy and, more positively, advancements in sex education and family planning. But among those deciding whether or not to have kids is an increasingly pressing worry: How do we justify…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to ease rules that require employers to offer birth control coverage, arguing that the proposal poses a danger to women’s health.
I’m actually a little surprised it took the University of Notre Dame a whole three weeks to rescind birth control coverage for its students, faculty, and staff after the Trump administration officially rolled back the contraceptive mandate on October 6
Nurx is a small telemedicine app that makes access to birth control and the morning after pill a little more convenient. The app, which has expanded to 13 states and Washington, DC, is simple: for $15 a month, you enter your health and insurance information, choose your birth control preference, and have it delivered…
On Friday, the Trump administration rolled back the Obamacare birth control mandate, offering an exemption on religious or moral grounds to employers who had been required to include birth control coverage in insurance plans—and that was just the latest sign that the Trump administration is following the standard,…
Birth control should be free, but instead the Trump administration is reportedly about to make it even harder for some women to obtain.
Ian Somerhalder and his wife Nikki Reed were guests on a podcast called Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcast this week. I have no idea who Dr. Berlin is, but both he and his cohost, a midwife named Blyss Young, appear to be quite good at making their guests comfortable, because Somerhalder told an upsetting story…
New York City has long loomed large in the libidinal imagination of America. And it goes back much further than the dirty days when Times Square was an open-air adult emporium, as a new display on the anti-obscenity and birth control movements at the Museum of the City of New York makes clear.
In a season three episode of Veep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Selina Meyer comments on the over-politicizing of reproductive rights, remarking aptly that “if men got pregnant, you could get an abortion at an ATM.” But men CANNOT get pregnant, so instead women’s health advocates must spend their time fighting for affordable…
According to a new report from the CDC, the teen birth rate in the US has dropped 9 percent compared to last year, which is a record low.
I remember screaming when I first saw the blood, but I couldn’t hear my own scream. I had never seen that much blood before. It was a pool the size of a beach ball soaking into my sheets by the second. I jumped out of bed, and as soon as I stood up, I felt more of it pour out of me.
Trump administration’s plans to overhaul the Obamacare mandate on birth control coverage have long been expected. Earlier this week, multiple outlets reported that the Trump administration had drafted a rule that would allow religious employers to opt out of the mandate requiring birth control coverage in health…
The first new male contraceptive in more than a century—an injectable, sperm-zapping gel with the consistency of “melted chocolate”—is on the verge of launching out of a university startup in rural India, with little support from Big Pharma investors, Bloomberg reports.
One of the more magnificent facets of the Affordable Care Act is that it allows women free access to birth control. On Thursday, interim House Budget Chair Diane Black confirmed to reporters what most of us already suspected: That once Trump successfully vanquishes the ACA, our BC access will disappear right along…
