Enlarge this image Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs online pharmacy is adding the oral contraceptive Yaz from Bayer to its list of…
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Enlarge this image An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration supported drugmaker Perrigo’s application to sell the oral contraceptive Opill…
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Enlarge this image Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will make a recommendation about whether the agency should approve the first…
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Fear of pregnancy: One teen’s story in post-Roe America
by Selena Simmons-Duffin April 15, 2023Credit: Paige Vickers for NPR Juliet was hanging out with her aunt and relaxing, floating in a lake in Georgia last spring…
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In the hunt for a male contraceptive, scientists look to stop sperm in their tracks
by Andrea Muraskin December 4, 2022Enlarge this image filo/Getty Images filo/Getty Images Condoms have been used to prevent pregnancy since the Middle Ages, with the rubber version…
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Preventive care such as birth control, anti-HIV medicine challenged in Texas lawsuit
by Allison Aubrey August 9, 2022Enlarge this image Research shows that expanded access to preventive care and coverage has led to an increase in colon cancer screenings,…
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More people are opting to get sterilized — and some are being turned away
by Ellis Juhlin July 29, 2022Enlarge this image Dani Marietti’s “sterilization shower” in Helena, Montana, features cookies with abortion-rights slogans, such as “My Body, My Choice,” written…
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Why this key chance to getting permanent birth control is often missed
by Nell Greenfieldboyce July 12, 2022Enlarge this image Maria Fabrizio for NPR Maria Fabrizio for NPR In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision to…