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Free birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births, a large study concluded Thursday, offering strong evidence for how a bitterly contested Obama administration policy could benefit women’s health.

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

An advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light Thursday to an emergency contraceptive for use up to five days after sex.

For half a century, women have had access to birth control pills. Men? Still waiting.

Try after try to make vaginal creams that could repel the AIDS virus have failed. Now researchers are testing if a drug used to treat HIV infection ...

But recently, the Yaz line's image has been clouded by concerns from some researchers, health advocates and plaintiffs' lawyers. They say that the drugs put women at higher risk for blood clots, strokes and other health problems than some other birth control pills do.

Millions has been spent on research, yet there's still no male birth control. Will men ever share in the burden of pregnancy prevention?

The Food and Drug Administration, reversing field, will now let 17-year-olds get the 'morning-after' birth control pill without ...