Kelly-Anne Phillips, MD, shares new findings suggesting that hormonal contraceptive use can increase the risk for breast ...

A new study found that blood clot risk drops within two to four weeks of stopping birth control. A person’s risk for a blood ...

Using birth ... taken hormonal birth control pills. The study suggested that after adjusting for extraneous variables, it was only the use of over 10 years that was associated with this risk.

Career women were warned last night that delaying motherhood could increase the risk ... due to hormonal changes caused by childbearing. The warning came as figures showed that breast cancer ...

Using birth control pills and other ... benefits and risks of hormonal contraceptives and guide when to stop using them ahead of events that could further increase the risk of dangerous clots ...

So, exactly how long does it take for the elevated clot risk to go away? Blondon's group focused on common hormonal contraceptives such as birth control pills, vaginal rings and skin patches.

Scientists at The Ohio State University are exploring how common synthetic hormones used for birth control affect the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain that continues to develop throughout ...

The earliest American cancer registry, which covers Connecticut, shows early-onset breast cancer has been rising since the 1930s — before hormonal ... birth and breastfeeding decrease the risk ...