The morning after pill is essentially a high dose of the ordinary contraceptive pill. Taken in two doses 12 hours apart, it works by artificially altering hormone levels. Levonelle uses the ...

Although the actual contents have now changed to just the progestogen part (as is found in the mini-pill), the result is the same, although it is more effective and side-effects are reduced.

EVERY morning for a year, Dan Glastonbury brushed his teeth then did something that is incredibly familiar to many women. He took his daily dose of birth control. Dan and wife Emily are one of ...

When I first phoned up, my symptoms were just dismissed as period pain and me being 'overdramatic'. "I'd never experienced anything like this until taking the morning after pill. I was told I was ...

Am I an alcoholic? It’s a question I’ve asked myself many times over more than a decade. That alone is enough for most ...

One school holds that giving women a pregnancy test followed by a “morning-after pill” if the test is negative ... from reaching the egg. In this way, any child conceived is exposed to very ...

He’s making big business, in part, by undercutting retail prices; for instance, he was selling a Plan B morning after contraceptive pills for $20 less than Walgreens and CVS. Nicorette Gum was ...

She was looking at my ovaries on the screen and I was hoping she’d be able to tell me why I hadn’t had a period since coming off the pill seven months ago. And then she uttered some words ...

As a daily pill-taker, I’ve learned that the phrase “Out of sight, out of mind” holds all too true when it comes to staying on top of my medications. A pill case that looks and feels nice ...

An 18-month-old Indiana toddler tragically died days after ingesting a pill used to treat opioid addiction ... but will also be a way for Azana to live on through them.” A GoFundMe page set ...