Both men and women are responsible for pregnancy, yet the burden of preventing it often falls on one gender. Women can choose from a variety of options to control fertility while for generations, men ...

The FDA approved a new safety warning for Depo-Provera alerting patients to a possible risk for a type of brain tumor called ...

As of 2025, lawsuits are now underway against Pfizer, the manufacturer of Depo-Provera, filed by women who were diagnosed with meningioma after using the birth control shot. These cases allege that ...

For years, preventing pregnancy in the US has meant choosing between the lesser of several annoyances: remembering a daily ...

WESTWEGO, Louisiana — Robin Phillip’s fresh haircut is dyed her favorite color — green. But beneath the dye job is a scar that runs along the side of her head, the result of two craniotomies. For ...

For decades, millions of women have relied on the Depo-Provera birth control shot as a convenient form of long-term contraception. However, growing medical evidence has linked long-term Depo-Provera ...

Pfizer’s battle over the safety label for its birth control injection has finally come to a close. The pharma giant announced that the Food and Drug Administration approved its new safety warning ...

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The decision comes as Pfizer faces lawsuits from more than 1000 women who say the company knew about the risks and didn’t warn them. The agency signed off last week on a label update for 2 versions of ...

THURSDAY, Dec. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new safety warning for Depo-Provera, a widely used birth control shot made by Pfizer, alerting patients ...