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When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000 people hit the “like” button. Of the pros, the girl said her birth control made her period ...

Evidence shows that birth control pills containing the hormones estrogen and progestin can increase the risk of different types of cancers and decrease the risk of others.  Since 1999, the World ...

Hormonal Imbalance Effects: People use the pill to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Let us tell you whether this pill can cause cancer or if it's a myth. Do birth control pills cause cancer? Do birth ...

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Doctors warn that frequent use of morning after pills expose the body to a hormone dose several times higher than a regular contraceptive pill disrupting the body’s hormonal rhythm ...

NOTE TO READERS: This story originally said the bill was headed to the governor’s desk. That was incorrect. SIOUX FALLS, S.D.

With several birth control options available, doctors say some methods are more effective than others and have different side effects.

House Bill 1138, known as the Increasing Access to Contraceptives Act, would allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives such as birth control pills.