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Birth control pills: Can stopping them affect your blood sugar levels?
August 04, 2026 9:30 am
Can stopping birth control pills affect blood sugar? An expert explains how hormonal contraceptives influence insulin sensitivity, glucose regulation and what women with PCOS, prediabetes or diabetes should know.
Who am I without birth control?
September 13, 2025 5:32 pm
A growing number of young women are questioning hormonal birth control, influenced not by medical side effects, but by social media content from wellness influencers who promise a new sense of well-being after stopping the pill.
Birth control increases stroke risk – here's what women need to know
May 31, 2025 3:30 pm
In addition to clotting, oestrogen may also slightly raise blood pressure and affect how blood vessels behave over time, which can further increase stroke risk.
A vaccine side effect leaves women wondering: why isn’t the pill safer?
May 31, 2021 11:23 am
The clots linked to the vaccine were a dangerous type in the brain, while birth control pills increase the chances of a blood clot in the leg or lung — a point quickly noted by many experts. But the distinction made little difference to some women
A birth control pill for men on the horizon
February 15, 2015 5:11 pm
For men who resent wearing condoms, a new non-intrusive solution is on the anvil - a birth control pill.
Birth control pill successful on mice,men next?
August 18, 2012 2:25 am
US researchers have stumbled on a compound that may finally lead to a birth control pill for men.
Soon,first ever contraceptive pill for men
August 17, 2012 2:42 pm
The new drug,which is hormone-free,disrupts a crucial stage of sperm development.
Chemical Reaction
February 02, 2011 11:59 pm
It happened over a dinner conversion in New York. In the 1950s,birth control activist Margaret Sanger entrusted Gregory Pincus.
Chemical Reaction
February 02, 2011 2:18 am
It happened over a dinner conversion in New York. In the 1950s,birth control activist Margaret Sanger entrusted Gregory Pincus.
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