The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Seasonique, an extended-cycle birth control pill that limits menstrual periods to just four times a year.

According to The Associated Press, the pill that has to be taken for 84 days is made by Duramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., a unit of Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey

Researchers say jailed women need reproductive health services as they are at "extremely high" risk for sexually transmitted diseases.

The study found that 38 percent of 484 incarcerated women in Rhode Island had multiple sex partners and more than 83 percent had unplanned pregnancies after their release

Harvard researchers, in efforts to develop the next generation of birth control, say an extensive knowledge of how sperm and egg unite is critical to the future of fertility and birth control drugs.

David Clapham and Yuriy Kurichok of Harvard University say that the female reproductive tract is warmer near the ovaries. Apparently this encourages the free-swimming sperm cells to keep moving. Besides being heat-seeking, sperm also appear to have olfactory sensors and will swim towards a synthetic compound with a floral smell

According to a new study, imprisoned women are much more likely to start using birth control when it is offered to them in prison than through community health services after their release.

Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School reported their findings in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health

Commercial availability of male hormonal contraception has been slow, but the outlook is closer than ever before.

Male birth control is a male hormonal control, similar to "the birth control pill" taken by women. The male hormone control method causes sperm count levels to drop below fertility levels