Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) can prevent pregnancy for up to three months, and is available in a form that can be ...

For years, preventing pregnancy in the US has meant choosing between the lesser of several annoyances: remembering a daily ...

A new study shows many doctors do not offer self-injected birth control, even though it is safe and effective.

Self-administered injectable contraceptives have been available in the United States for more than two decades, yet a new ...

Pfizer’s battle over the safety label for its birth control injection has finally come to a close. The pharma giant announced that the Food and Drug Administration approved its new safety warning ...

The FDA approved a new safety warning for Depo-Provera alerting patients to a possible risk for a type of brain tumor called meningioma.

The FDA approved a label change for Pfizer’s birth control injection Depo-Provera on Dec. 13, adding a warning about the risk of meningioma — a brain tumor — to two versions of the drug. The update ...

In 2019, Alyssa, a Kansas City native, was attending her freshman year of college in Washington, DC, when she needed her birth control shot administered. She went to her university’s busy hospital and ...

The decision comes as Pfizer faces lawsuits from more than 1000 women who say the company knew about the risks and didn’t warn them. The agency signed off last week on a label update for 2 versions of ...