A new smartphone app offers to prescribe birth control without seeing a doctor in person. It's called Nurx and it's now available in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Once you download the app, the patient ...

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Femasys Inc. announced the achievement of CE mark certification for the FemBloc delivery system, marking it as the first regulatory approval in the world for a non-surgical permanent birth control ...

Female-founded startups are sidestepping politicians with birth control-delivery services, at-home STI testing, and more—to give women control of their health care. “Most key stakeholders at the helm ...

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A new study shows access to birth control has increased following the FDA's approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill. In the two years since the pill went on the market, there's a 31.8% ...

About two years after the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the United States, a new study suggests that many people who may not have had access ...

When a symptom is common to so many different underlying causes, prescribing the symptom and not the cause does no lasting good. It masks without treating. And worse, it results in the decrease in ...