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WARNING: Those Morning After Pills May Be Fake

8:00AM August 27, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

So you had a good night but something went wrong and you think that you or your partner may get an unwanted pregnancy. Best solution? Morning after pill. Worst solution? Fake morning after pills. The US Federal Drug Administration is warning about them: More »

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The Pill Doesn’t Make You Fat, Though Drug Companies Say It Does

7:50AM August 18, 2011 | Kristen Philipkoski

The pill doesn’t make you gain weight? The idea goes completely against what pretty much every woman in the world believes, myself included — until today. More »

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The Best Birth Control Is A Piece Of Plastic Lodged Inside Your Uterus

10:40AM July 29, 2011 | Alyssa Bereznak

What’s the most aggravating form of birth control? Taking a pill every day for most of your young adulthood or inserting a spindly plastic thingy — otherwise known as an intrauterine device — in your uterus? If you’re not a lady you’d guess the former. But you might be wrong. More »

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An Ingenious New Sperm-Crippling Birth Control For Dudes

2:20PM April 27, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

We need better birth control. This isn’t terribly controversial. Most current birth control is based on decades old science, merely refined as the years have gone by. And there’s still no male equivalent of the pill, which puts the brunt of the burden of long-term birth control on women. More »

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"Bright Pill" For Male Birth Control Shows Promise In Early Tests

11:20AM June 25, 2010 | Mara Hvistendahl

The quest for a male birth control method has taken some weird turns. The latest contender for the elusive male pill is an Israeli scientist who says he has developed a compound that temporarily inhibits the reproductive capacity of sperm. More »

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Bill Gates Wants To Ultrasound Your Testes

10:40AM May 12, 2010 | Brian Barrett

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has put $US100,000 behind research into using ultrasound as a temporary contraceptive for men. If successful, it would be a means to provide low-cost, non-hormonal birth control for up to six months. More »

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Birth Control Used To Be Utterly Terrifying

2:47AM October 30, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Abstinence was so the sexiest way to not have children until the 20th century, as Newsweek’s terrifying illustrated history of birth control shows. Look at this scary contraption that went inside of ladyparts around the time Lysol douches were popular… More »