An MIT spin-off in Massachusetts, backed by the Gates Foundation, has developed a small, remote-controlled drug-dispensing implant that sits just under your skin. To activate the drug dispenser you ...

A model assessing 8 hormonal contraceptive methods found that lower pregnancy costs for the etonogestrel implant and levonorgestrel intrauterine device offset their higher acquisition costs. To ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel technology would allow for nonsurgical injection of the long-acting contraceptive levonorgestrel. If ...

oral contraceptives A review published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews generally found no association between higher body mass index (BMI) or weight and hormonal contraceptive efficacy.

A birth control chip being developed can be implanted in the skin, controlled wirelessly, turns on and off and it lasts for 16 years. Everything has a wireless control nowadays — why should birth ...

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NEW YORK — More than 90 percent of women who opt for long-term reversible forms of birth control keep using them for at least six months, a new study found. Those birth control methods include ...

The combination of contraceptive implants and new antiretroviral combination therapy being rolled out in Africa do not appear to have drug-drug interactions with treatment for HIV infection, ...