Fertility awareness is a method of birth control that tracks the menstrual cycle to show when a person is most fertile. To prevent pregnancy, people will need to avoid sex or use other birth ...

Teen girls who are sexually active should be offered long-acting birth control such as an intrauterine device (IUD) front and centre, Canadian Paediatric Society says in a new position statement.

Still, the pill is among the more effective methods of birth control. By comparison, condoms have a failure rate of from 2% with perfect use to 13% with typical use.

Birth control is covered by most insurance and under The Affordable Care Act, but KFF (formerly known as Kaiser Family Foundation) found that about 25% of people pay some out-of-pocket costs ...