UB pharmacy researcher Nicole Cieri-Hutcherson says pharmacist-administered injectable contraceptives are a dependable, convenient and discrete form of birth control. Photo: Douglas Levere By LAURIE ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Approximately 19 million U.S. women of childbearing age reside in what are known as “contraceptive deserts” due to geographic, political, economic and social barriers to birth control.

Stock image of a woman getting a shot. A popular method of birth control has been linked to the development of a specific type of brain tumor in multiple studies — and patients are now suing the ...

Self-administered injectable contraceptives have been available in the United States for more than two decades, yet a new study has found only about a quarter of reproductive health experts prescribe ...

The first large-scale U.S.-based study to evaluate the link between an injectable form of progestin-only birth control and breast cancer risk in young women has found that recent use of a year or more ...

Self-administered injectable contraceptives have been available in the United States for more than two decades, yet a new study has found only about a quarter of reproductive health experts prescribe ...

When Lindsey Boynton was offered the option to give herself her birth control shot at home, she was surprised the option even existed. The method — self-injected subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone ...

As if the AIDS crisis in Africa wasn’t bad enough, scientists now believe that a birth control method that’s popular in the eastern and southern parts of the continent is increasing women’s HIV risk.

Some people have concerns about the long-term effects of reversible birth control on fertility. However, no scientific evidence links reversible birth control (such as hormonal birth control pills, ...