For example, a company called Cadence is working on getting FDA approval for a birth control pill with a different formulation that would also be available over the counter without a prescription. But ...

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 ...

Correction: A graphic at the end of this segment misstated the number of unintended pregnancies in the U.S. In fact, almost half of the 6.1 million pregnancies in the ...

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

The rollout is underway for Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the United States, and online sales began Monday morning. Consumers can start ordering Opill online Monday, ...

As researchers that have supported building evidence around contraceptive safety, effectiveness and interests, we were thrilled when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced they had ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the birth control pill Opill to be available over-the-counter — the first nonprescription birth control pill in the United States. “Today’s ...

The pill was cleared by the FDA for use without a prescription last July. Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill that can be purchased without a prescription, will be available later ...

Washington — People with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter birth control methods like condoms, the "morning after" pill and birth control pills for free under a rule ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are ...

The first birth control pill that people can buy without a prescription, called Opill, is shipping to stores this week. Perrigo, the Ireland-based company that makes Opill, said the pills should be ...