Category: birth control pill

LIVE 9:30 AM ET: FDA, HHS Advisory Board Meeting on Nonprescription Birth Control Pill (Day 2)

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services hold a public advisory committee meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET on May 10. The committees discuss supplemental new drug application (sNDA) 017031/S-041, for OPILL…


LIVE NOW: FDA, HHS Advisory Board Meeting on Nonprescription Birth Control Pill (Day 2)

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services hold a public advisory committee meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET on May 10. The committees discuss supplemental new drug application (sNDA) 017031/S-041, for OPILL…


FDA, HHS Advisory Board Meeting on Nonprescription Birth Control Pill (Day 2)

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services hold a public advisory committee meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET on May 10. The committees discuss supplemental new drug application (sNDA) 017031/S-041, for OPILL…


LIVE 9:30 AM ET: FDA, HHS Advisory Board Meeting on a Nonprescription Birth Control Pill

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services hold a public advisory committee meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET on May 9. The committees discuss supplemental new drug application (sNDA) 017031/S-041, for OPILL…


LIVE NOW: FDA, HHS Advisory Board Meeting on a Nonprescription Birth Control Pill

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services hold a public advisory committee meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET on May 9. The committees discuss supplemental new drug application (sNDA) 017031/S-041, for OPILL…


How the Birth Control Pill Changes Who You Are

How we perceive the world, form memories, and experience satisfaction fundamentally define the way we live and who we are. Recent science and widespread firsthand accounts now show that hormonal contraception, including the birth control pill, profoundly affects these domains by altering the structure of the brain and our neurochemistry. Hormonal contraception (HC) has long…