In some types of birth control pills, the last week of the pack usually consists of inactive or placebo pills. These pills do not contain any hormones. There are many different types of birth ...

Birth control pills can cost anywhere from $20 to $50 per pack. Over a year, this can add up to anywhere from $240 to $600. See if your insurance covers your birth control pill. If they do ...

In this prospective, observational study, investigators compared short-term OC continuation among women who were instructed to take their first OC tablet (i.e., the first tablet of the pill pack ...

A man arriving in Guam from Hawaii was stopped by Customs and Quarantine officers after pills in his possession tested positive for methamphetamine.Mark Edwin Cacho Ocampo is charged with importation ...

I’m still swallowing it for now. . . . But my Pill pack has started to seem kinda like a Discman in a Spotify world . . . and not in a hip, ironic way. When Cosmo did some fact-finding with ...

After her makeup artist, who is also a nurse, advised her to take a Nurofen, she quickly searched through her medicine box and grabbed "a silver packet with smooth white pills." Jensen took two of ...

This might mean doubling the dose if you missed an entire day. Continue your pill pack as scheduled. No backup contraception is needed. Back-up birth control may include condoms, diaphragms ...

There’s a big warning label on every pill packet that says taking antibiotics may lessen the effectiveness of the birth control pill, but many people don’t read the fine print. The only ...

If you can't, or don't want to wait until you finish a pack, you can still adjust the time you take your pill mid-pack. But it's a little more complicated, according to Nasseri, because you've ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. “You see, I put the ampicillin next to the Tylenol—a packet of pink pills, a packet of blue pills. The colors have to ...