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Maryland takes birth control coverage to the next level
UPDATE: President Biden has opened the enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for 2022. You can now enroll in one of these plans until January 15, 2022, at healthcare.gov . Some states have their own open enrollment periods and websites for signing up. Check to see if your state does . […]
Yay! Pharmacists in California can prescribe birth control too now
Back in January 2016 we wrote that Oregon had made some hormonal birth control methods available directly from pharmacists and that a similar law was about to go into effect in California. Well, Californians, the wait is over —pharmacists in your state will now be able to prescribe birth control! The laws in the two […]
Hormonal birth control for guys is still far, far away
We’re big fans of new birth control options for guys . So when stories about birth control breakthroughs for men crop up from time to time, we get excited…for a minute. Then we realize that these methods are in a super, super early phase of research . The good news is that the U.S. Food […]
Thanks, birth control! Accidental pregnancies are dropping
Researchers have been tracking the number of accidental pregnancies in the United States since the 1980s. For all that time, the proportion of accidental pregnancies has stayed right around 50%. Until now. New research shows that after decades of little change, rates of accidental pregnancy in the U.S. have gone down. A few noteworthy stats: […]
One step closer to answers about Essure
UPDATE: Essure will no longer be sold after the end of 2018. Find out more here . ​The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced their plans to respond to concerns about the safety and effectiveness of the permanent birth control method Essure. Until May 3, 2016, anyone can read and comment on these […]
What you should know about the Zika virus
Editor’s Note: The CDC is constantly updating their information, so visit their website for the latest on Zika. (BTW, they’ve also got guidance for health care providers .) — Doctors have known about the Zika virus for nearly 70 years—so why is it only making headlines now? Zika virus is in the news because it’s […]
It’s official! Oregon pharmacists can prescribe birth control
Update: California has joined Oregon in making birth control available directly through a pharmacy visit! Here are the details. — Oregon made our hearts go boom again this week. They’re the first state to make the pill and the patch available directly from a pharmacist —no doctor’s visit needed. One stop shop On January 1, […]
Does more sex make you happier?
Does more sex make couples happier? Or do happier couples have more sex? It’s a classic chicken and egg debate—and one that’s hard to study scientifically. But a group of researchers in Ontario fearlessly waded into heaps of data to consider this question . They looked over survey responses from 25,000 people in the General […]
Sigh: The most common STIs are getting even more common
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released their annual report card for the country’s sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The good news is that pelvic inflammatory disease (a.k.a. PID) seems to be on a steady decline. The bad news is that some of the most common STIs—chlamydia and gonorrhea—seem to be on […]
Why you probably shouldn’t worry about the pill and strokes
Strokes are rare among young people—so rare that few studies collect information about people under age 45 who have one. A new study looked at data from 24 studies of young women to learn more about these rare occurrences and found a link between strokes and certain kinds of birth control pills. Here’s why we […]
