A study released by the Guttmacher Institute said almost half of pregnancies across the U.S. are accidents.

Although birth control devices and information are widely available, almost 50 percent of America's annual 6 million pregnancies are unintended

Germany's Left Wing party wants the federal government to distribute contraceptives to indigent Germans to let them enjoy having sex without running the risk of pregnancy. The proposal aims to curb the rising number of child births among women from the lowest-income bracket.

Katja Kipping, deputy chair of the Left Party, told Spiegel Online, "Poverty is overshadowing people's love lives." She added the indigent women are too poor to even afford to buy a birth control pill or IUD

Some 30 years after taking birth control pills, a woman can be protected against ovarian cancer according to a study that shows taking the pill had prevented over 100,000 ovarian cancer deaths worldwide.

British researchers said, the longer a woman is on the pill, the less likely she is to develop the disease known as the "silent killer" because symptoms are often diagnose too late, the Lancet Medical Journal reports that the pill halves the risk of ovarian cancer compared with those who have never taken it

Women are at higher risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE) when using the Ortho Evra Contraceptive Transdermal Patch, according to a new label approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday.

VTE can lead to pulmonary embolism, the FDA said.

The prescription patch releases ethinyl estradiol (an estrogen hormone) and norelgestromin (a progestin hormone) through the skin into the blood stream

Teenagers who received sex education in school were less likely to have sexual intercourse before age 15, a new study says.

"Sex education seems to be working," said Trisha Mueller, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "It seems to be especially effective for populations that are usually at high risk