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Nicky Reynolds of Minnesota may be one of the 11 in 100,000 women who suffer a stroke due to contraceptive pills. She was a 30-year-old school ...

Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.

Federal health officials on Friday approved a new type of morning-after contraceptive that works longer than the current leading drug on the market.

They've been called noisy, unwieldy and like a plastic bag.

Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.