Canada’s national pharmacy regulation body is recommending that “morning-after” contraceptive pills be sold over the counter.The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities decided Wednesday to support sales of the drug known as Plan B...

Chile’s Constitutional Court halted a government program Friday that provided the contraceptive known as the “morning-after” pill free to women and girls as young as 14.The court voted 5-4 to effectively ban the distribution of the pill by the...

A group of pharmacists asked the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday to throw out a rule that forces them to dispense emergency contraception despite moral objections, claiming it amounts to illegal coercion.Gov. Rod Blagojevich issued the rule in 2005,...

Women taking the birth control pill have a slightly higher risk of cervical cancer, but that risk disappears a decade after they stop taking it, scientists say.International researchers reported Friday in the British medical journal The Lancet that women...

A troubling study from Belgium hints that long-term use of oral contraceptives _ at least the high-estrogen ones sold decades ago _ might increase the chances of having artery buildups that can raise the risk of heart disease.The theory needs much more...

A migraine pill seems to help alcoholics taper off their drinking without detox treatment, researchers report, offering a potential option for a hard-to-treat problem. The drug, Topamax, works in a different way than three other medications already...

Roman Catholic bishops in Connecticut have agreed to let hospital personnel give emergency contraception to all rape victims, reversing their decision days before a new state law requires it.The church, which runs four of the state’s 30 hospitals, had...