How ‘safe’ are you on your your birth control pill?
About one-third of women using contraception use the pill. But how effective is the birth control pill? There are two types of contraceptive pill – the combined pill, containing oestrogen and progestogen, and the progestogen-only-pill (often referred to as the mini-pill). While most evidence about pill effectiveness relates to the combined pill, both pill types are quoted as […]
Scientists develop once-a-month oral contraceptive pill
Once swallowed, the pill remains in the stomach for weeks, slowly releasing hormones to prevent a pregnancy.