You may have heard that birth control pills can give you blood clots. This may seem shocking, since oral contraceptives are the most common type of birth control in the United States. The truth is ...

Elon Musk, one of his closest advisers, has at least a dozen children and has said that his fear of low birth rates leading to the collapse of modern civilization keeps him up at night.

From the U.S. to Singapore, the global birth rate is on a decline compared to 1960 as people battle higher costs of living and childcare. They're also dealing more with medical conditions and ...

Online searches for topics related to women's health have spiked since the Nov. 5 election, particularly when it comes to birth control, Google data shows. Searches for IUDs, birth control pills ...

Between the 2020 Supreme Court ruling that made it legal for employers to refuse to cover birth control and the fact that 19 million people who are capable of becoming pregnant live in a contracep ...

Many women in the United States use hormonal birth control at some period in their life to avoid pregnancy. Some people think that the extra hormones in your body from birth control can lead to ...

Some people may experience a change in breast size as a temporary side effect when taking birth control pills. It can take several months for breasts to return to their regular size. Although ...

Governments can control interest rates and inflation rates; stimulating birth rates is far harder. We report from the land of the rising sun—now also the land of declining sons (and daughters) ...

Americans are having fewer babies, with the annual birth rate now standing near a record low. It's a trend that has implications for the nation's long-term outlook — and has drawn attention from ...