Women in the UK who claim to have suffered harm after being fitted with Bayer's Essure contraceptive device have been cleared to pursue legal action against the company.
Women's health pharma Exeltis USA has been reprimanded by the FDA for making a Facebook post that promoted its birth control product Slynd, overstating its efficacy and fa
The first-ever over-the-counter contraceptive pill has finally been approved for sale in the US, extending the choice of birth control options available to women.
An FDA advisory committee has unanimously voted in favour of approval for what could become the first oral contraceptive to be made available in the US without a doctor’s
Bayer's big-selling contraceptive Mirena has been approved in Europe to provide up to eight years of pregnancy protection, which the company says is the longest of any device of its kind.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the University of Pennsylvania have jointly won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that enabled the develop
Drug discovery is usually a goal-driven and iterative process, as researchers look for innovative new routes to target particular diseases and study those diseases in afflicted patients to learn ho