Opinion: An OB-GYN addresses misinformation about hormonal birth control

As an OB-GYN training to be a complex family planning subspecialist at UC San Diego, I have seen misinformation about ...
STAT

Birth control has become harder to get. New York has some creative solutions

Anika Nayak was a news intern at STAT. As a freelance health reporter, she has covered sleep medicine, nutrition, and mental health via service journalism. A typical vending machine on a university ...
Yahoo

No, Birth Control Isn’t Abortion—Plus 16 Other Contraception Myths to Drop

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These misconceptions can have far-reaching repercussions, for instance putting people at risk for unintended pregnancy or keeping ...
STAT

Social media misinformation is scaring women about birth control

Pfender is an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, a postdoctoral researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a research ...
Futurism

Woman Gets Off Birth Control Because Influencers Told Her To, Immediately Gets Pregnant by Mistake

On TikTok and Instagram, a chorus of young influencers are advising women in their age bracket to ditch their hormonal birth control pills, saying they cause a cavalcade of problems for physical and ...
Houston Public Media

Influencers criticize birth control and push 'natural' methods. Here's what to know

According to posts on TikTok, hormonal birth control can cause a nearly unlimited list of ailments: Depression, irreversible infertility, acne, destruction of the gut biome, weight gain, balding, and ...
WHDH

7 Investigates: Birth control tested as a way to solve local cities’ rat problems

MALDEN, MASS. (WHDH) - Rats are increasingly pestering neighbors in Malden. “They run around the day like they own the neighborhood,” said Ryan Newhall. “They’re huge, they’re like this big and I’m ...