Using hormonal birth control methods, such as "the pill," may increase users' risk of blood clots, strokes and heart attacks, ...

The most common formulation of birth control pills has been linked to a doubling of relative risk of heart attack and stroke, ...

A new study confirms previous findings that hormonal birth control is associated with an increased risk of heart attack and ...

After adjusting for factors such as age, education, high blood pressure and diabetes, researchers linked the ...

However, each woman's absolute risk remained low: Use of the estrogen/progestin pill translated to one extra stroke for every 4,760 women using the pill for one year, and one extra heart attack for ...

The study revealed that there was a greater risk of both heart attack and stroke linked to most forms of hormonal ...

Many women spend decades using birth control of one kind or another, except for when they’re trying to conceive or are ...

The pill formulation linked to linked to a doubling of relative risk of heart attack and stroke is a combination of the hormones estrogen plus progestin, researchers reported Wednesday in The BMJ ...

From texture changes to surprising growth patterns, learn what medical experts never tell you about contraceptives.