When taken as directed, norgestrel has 98% efficacy in preventing pregnancy in individuals who are adherent to the daily regimen.

Rare is the cultural object that can co-opt unmodified the very category of which it is a part: Even the Bible is referred to as the good book. Yet when people speak of the Pill, you know they don ...

Pfizer said it would stop studying the pill after a participant in one of its trials experienced a drug-induced liver injury.

School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of the oral contraceptive pill (OCP) on skeletal health, soft tissue injury, and performance ...

The number of sportswomen on hormonal contraception is also huge – the latest research would suggest that half of female athletes use it, and 68% of those are on oral contraceptive pills.

Oral contraceptive pills contain active ingredients based on the female sex hormones oestrogen and progesterone to prevent pregnancy. Contraceptive pills with both hormones are known as combined ...