If you miss a birth control pill, take it as soon as you can. (Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) Oral contraceptive pills consist of either the hormones progestin and estrogen or only progestin ...

Combined oral contraceptives (COCs) are a safe and highly effective method of birth control, but they can also raise problems of clinical tolerability and/or safety in migraine patients.

By 1962, well over one million American women were taking oral contraceptives. By 1964, the pill had become the most popular form of reversible birth control, a position it retains today both here ...

Pills that contain progestin and estrogen are called combined oral contraceptives (COCs). Most forms of modern birth control pills contain lower amounts of estrogen than they did in the past.

Two bills making their way through the Oklahoma Legislature would allow women to receive a full year’s supply of birth ...

Original Medicare (parts A and B) doesn’t cover birth control for preventing ... the cost of certain medications, such as the oral contraceptive pill, for example. But, because private insurance ...

House and governor must agree to give women the ability to access six months' worth of birth control at a time. Thirteen ...

Hormonal contraceptives were categorized as combined oral contraceptives, combined non-oral contraceptives, progestogen-only pills, and progestogen-only non-oral contraceptives. Use of combined ...