The most effective types of birth control are 99% effective. Those include sterilization, IUDs, and implants. The pill is about 93% effective with typical use.

Family planning assistance from the U.S. government usually helps more than 47 million women and couples every year in low income countries.

When it comes to preventing pregnancy, birth control methods vary in effectiveness. Options like IUDs and implants offer the highest protection, while pills, condoms, and natural methods are less ...

When it comes to navigating long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) options, intrauterine devices, better known as IUDs, ...

Questions about their fate swirled after the government's July deadline for destruction came and went. Then came a false report they'd been incinerated. Aid groups say it's not too late to save them.

Zookeepers spent three years teaching 16-year-old Mahiri how to confidently use an inhaler, which Banham Zoo designed to treat the giraffe's long-term nasal congestion ...

Female veterans suffering from urinary incontinence received effective relief using a smartphone app called MyHealtheBladder, ...

Having trouble with bladder control? There might be an app for that, researchers say. Female veterans suffering from urinary ...

Inserted near the ankle in a minimally invasive procedure, the device generates low-level electronic impulses that stimulate ...

Q: We’re planning to get pregnant, and I wondered what you could suggest to make sure I have a healthy baby? — Donna R., Fort Worth, Texas ...

Access to gender-affirming surgery (GAS) was often blocked by barriers for transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse (TGD) individuals looking to undergo the operation. A new analysis published in ...