Editor’s note: This story was updated July 13, 2023, to reflect the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a nonprescription birth control pill. For the first time, people in the United ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the oral contraceptive Opill for over-the-counter sales, making it the first hormonal contraceptive pill available in the U.S. without a ...

Food and Drug Administration scientists on Friday expressed skepticism about whether the birth control pill can be switched from prescription to over-the-counter. The assessment by FDA staff, included ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators are weighing the first request to make a birth control pill available without a prescription. But in an initial review posted Friday, the Food and Drug ...

If you’ve been seeing tweets and headlines about over-the-counter birth control lately, you might be really excited. The idea behind OTC birth control is that you’d be able to pop into a retailer like ...

U.S. health regulators are weighing the first-ever request to make a birth control pill available without a prescription. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meet next week to review ...