Hormonal contraceptives like the vaginal ring, skin patch, and estrogen-progestin pills are more likely to increase the risk ...

From a pool of over 2 million women of reproductive age, users of most methods of hormonal contraception -- including ...

Certain hormonal contraceptives are associated with a higher stroke and heart attack risk, finds a large study from Denmark ...

BMJ study finds non-oral combined contraceptives to carry the highest risk, but doctors advise women against stopping birth ...

The oral contraceptive pills Yaz and Yasmin will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from March 1 2025, ...

Many women are shunning contraception, using ‘natural’ tracking, which corresponds to a rise in abortions. Read more on ...

Certain contraceptives may carry a slightly increased risk of heart attacks and strokes in women, according to a large new ...

However, they said the findings are something for doctors to think about as they prescribe contraceptives. The pill formulation in question is a combination of the hormones estrogen plus progestin, ...

These cardiovascular side effects did not seem to apply ... risk extended to newer-formulation progestin-only pills and non-oral hormonal contraceptives had been even less clear.

stressed that the risk to any one user of hormonal contraceptives remains very low. However, since hundreds of millions of women worldwide use these pills and devices, the study findings remain ...

The most commonly used hormonal contraceptive - the combined oestrogen-progestin pill - was associated with ... Nonetheless, these side effects are serious and given that approximately 248 million ...