Women can now get the morning-after pill from pharmacies free of charge. The move has been hailed as one of the most significant changes to sexual health services since the 1960s, and officials hope ...

Women can now get the morning-after pill free of charge from pharmacies across England, which officials hope will help widen access and convenience for patients across the country. Emergency ...

This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Morning-after pills are no stranger to controversy. Remember when some pharmacists refused to fill prescriptions for Plan B, or more recently when the federal ...

The most heated part of the fight between the Obama administration and religious groups over new rules that require most health plans to cover contraception actually has nothing to do with birth ...

Would you be able to quickly obtain an emergency contraception pill or abortion pill if the need arose? In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down Roe v. Wade, millions of health ...

Until recently, both the National Institute of Health and the Mayo Clinic, two respected and oft-Googled sites listed what science now considers misinformation regarding emergency contraception. It ...

The thought of accidental pregnancy is, to put it mildly, a bummer. But one factor that women who face this situation might not consider is how their weight might effect their options. Recently, a ...