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Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax ...

California now requires tortillas to be fortified with folic acid to reduce birth defects in the Latino community, where ...

China is removing a tax exemption for contraceptives first applied during the One-child Policy era. It comes as Beijing seeks to reverse the country's rapid population decline. Experts say the move is ...

1 in 4 sexually active women has used injectable birth control, administered into the muscle by a clinician, but many may be unaware of its association with meningioma, the most common brain tumor in ...

WESTWEGO, La. — Robin Phillip’s fresh haircut is dyed her favorite color — green. But beneath the dye job is a scar that runs along the side of her head, the result of two craniotomies. For years, ...

A new Rice University study reveals that hormonal birth control influences more than reproductive health, it also affects how women process and remember emotions. Credit: Stock Research indicates that ...

For years, Danish doctors inserted intrauterine devices in Greenlandic girls and women without their consent, part of a painful legacy of mistreatment. By Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli The prime ...

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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. When it comes to birth control, men have exactly two reliable options: condoms or a vasectomy. That’s it. For decades ...