The pharma giant announced that the Food and Drug Administration approved its new safety warning label for Depo-Provera — Pfizer’s birth control injection that has been a subject of controversy as ...

With thousands of lawsuits and growing concerns over long-term risks, the FDA have added a brain tumor warning to the drug's label.

Let’s back up a moment. Depo-Provera is an injectable form of birth control. It contains the hormone depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), which protects against pregnancy for 13 weeks, according ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new safety warning for Depo-Provera, a widely used birth control shot ...

Pfizer faces a lawsuit in which women allege the drugmaker failed to warn them about the risks of meningioma associated with the birth control shot.

Thirty-year-old Elizabeth Fleurisma, a Long Island mother, was shocked to learn she had a brain tumor the size of a lime. She now bears the scars on her scalp from a grueling 16-hour surgery and ...

More than 65 percent of women ages 15 to 49 in the United States use some form of birth control, and many of them are on hormonal birth control methods like the pill, patch, ring, implant, injections, ...

Social media has long been rife with misinformation about birth control, much of it slamming hormonal contraceptives for health harms (like infertility or even abortion) that it does not cause, or ...

Since the approval of the first birth control pill in the 1960s, millions of women have relied on hormonal contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies, regulate periods and manage other health ...

Katia Riddle is a correspondent at NPR covering mental health. She has reported extensively on the impact of events such as Hurricane Helene, Los Angeles wildfires and the loneliness epidemic. Prior ...

Six decades after the first oral contraceptive for women was approved in the United States, University of Minnesota researchers are one step closer to developing a non-hormonal birth control pill for ...

Denmark's government said on Wednesday it had reached an agreement in parliament to provide individual compensation to ...