The Latest Breaking News from Birth Control

The FDA decision is only a mini step toward freeing the pill.

On July 13, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a drugmaker’s application for the first daily over-the-counter birth control pill for people seeking to prevent pregnancy.

Perrigo Co.’s Opill received U.S. clearance as the first daily oral birth-control product available without a prescription, coming at a time when reproductive rights are increasingly under fire.

Opill becomes the first hormonal birth control pill in the United States to be approved for over-the-counter sale by the Food and Drug Administration.

From convenience stores to online, the tablet "will be an available option for millions of people in the United States," the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research says.

The decision will likely expand availability of daily birth control pills, but questions around affordability still remain.

U.S. officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, a major change that will broaden access for women and teenagers

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Opill, making it the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill.

Taking a serious note of the rising stray dog menace in the district, authorities have decided to open more animal birth control (ABC) centres in Kottayam. Acting on a suggestion by the District Planning Committee, District panchayat president K. V. Bindu and District Collector V. Vigneswari jointly convened a meeting…