For years, women seeking non-hormonal birth control options haven't had that many to choose from. Enter Phexxi, a contraceptive gel free of hormones, which the Food and Drug Administration approved in ...

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While hormonal birth control pills are a common form of birth control, some forms of birth control don’t involve hormones. Instead, nonhormonal options prevent pregnancy by physically or chemically ...

Six decades after the first oral contraceptive for women was approved in the United States, University of Minnesota researchers are one step closer to developing a non-hormonal birth control pill for ...

The future of male contraception just got real. In a historic first, YCT-529, a hormone-free male birth control pill, has successfully passed its first human safety trial. Unlike traditional ...

A non-hormonal, reversible male contraceptive pill with very few side effects might not be as far off as previously thought, early human trial results suggest. In a first-in-human study, a drug called ...

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For many couples, the numerous options for birth control still come with plenty of hassles. But scientists are working on an alternative approach that might be more appealing for some: a non-hormonal ...

A newly published manuscript authored by Dr. Gunda Georg, YourChoice Therapeutics and Columbia University Medical Center describes the chemical journey of YCT-529, a non-hormonal male birth control ...

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When it comes to birth control, there are a wide variety of options from the pill to the patch, the ring, the shot, IUDs and the list goes on. Dr. Wendy McDonald joined us to break down the difference ...