With teen births on the downward slope, experts are calling attention to several factors prompting the trend.

According to new CDC data, there were 3.6 million U.S. births in 2025, a 1% decline from 2024 and down 23% since 2007. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2024, Premier Susan Holt promised to make contraception free by signing onto national pharmacare, but more than a year later ...

Health clinics have received Title X funding, following a delay. But the Trump administration will shift the program's focus ...

A year after the nation's first nonprescription daily birth control pill debuted for sale, reproductive health advocates said its impact has been felt especially by young women who now can easily ...

Despite progress in improving access to family planning, misconceptions about contraception continue to prevail and influence ...

Anika Nayak was a news intern at STAT. As a freelance health reporter, she has covered sleep medicine, nutrition, and mental health via service journalism. A typical vending machine on a university ...

Since 1970, under the federal Title X program, sexual health clinics have been permitted to administer birth control to minors, with or without parental consent, in every state. The program’s goal, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Fort Collins woman will undergo a surgery to prevent pregnancy. A Thornton couple has decided to embrace male birth control through a vasectomy. A mother ...

Michigan residents can now receive birth control prescriptions directly from their pharmacists. Gretchen Whitmer signed that measure into law this week as part of a bill package improving access to ...

Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Wednesday that ensures the right to contraception in the ...

In November, I am voting yes to amend Virginia’s Constitution to protect reproductive health care. This amendment protects ...