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First over-the-counter birth control pill approved by US regulators

Perrigo Co.’s Opill received U.S. clearance as the first daily oral birth-control product available without a prescription, coming at a time when reproductive rights are increasingly under fire.

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The FDA Just Approved OTC Hormonal Birth Control — Here’s When It Will Be Available

Opill becomes the first hormonal birth control pill in the United States to be approved for over-the-counter sale by the Food and Drug Administration.

Inverse

FDA approves Opill, the first daily birth control pill without a prescription

From convenience stores to online, the tablet "will be an available option for millions of people in the United States," the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research says.

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FDA approves 1st over-the-counter daily birth control pill

The decision will likely expand availability of daily birth control pills, but questions around affordability still remain.

Axios

First over-the-counter birth control pill gets FDA approval

U.S. officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, a major change that will broaden access for women and teenagers

The Independent UK

FDA approves first OTC birth control pill - Roll Call

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Opill, making it the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill.

Roll Call

Plans afoot to open more ABC units in Kottayam

Taking a serious note of the rising stray dog menace in the district, authorities have decided to open more animal birth control (ABC) centres in Kottayam. Acting on a suggestion by the District Planning Committee, District panchayat president K. V. Bindu and District Collector V. Vigneswari jointly convened a meeting…

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Stray dogs survey in Bengaluru from today

The city civic body has launched a stray dog survey across the city, which will be conducted over the next 14 days from Tuesday. The last such survey was done in 2019, when it pegged the stray dog population in the city at 3.1 lakh. “A resurvey is being taken…

The Hindu

‘The sex ed class you wish you’d had’: the influencer doctors teaching Americans the basics

With schools failing American students, OB-GYNs use TikTok to tackle questions and dispel myths

The Guardian - US

Biden executive order could force health insurers to cover birth control

Two months after a Fortune investigation, the president orders federal agencies to take action.

Fortune

Can President Biden’s executive order help American women get better birth control?

The White House wants to remove insurance barriers to birth control access, two months after Fortune published an investigation into those problems.

Fortune

Biden order aims to protect, expand contraception access - Roll Call

Biden's third executive order responding to the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision is the first focused primarily on birth control.

Roll Call

First Thing: More rescue equipment arrives amid fears for oxygen levels in Titan

Search for missing submersible enters fourth day, with more deep-sea vessels sent to site. Plus, the people turning to birth control after the fall of Roe

The Guardian - UK

The people turning to birth control after the fall of Roe: ‘I feel a little safer’

More people are feeling backed into a corner after the supreme court struck down the nationwide right to abortion last year

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Stray dog menace spreads panic in Kollam

As stray dog menace continues to rise in Kollam with the district reporting multiple incidents in the last seven days, the failure in implementing Animal Birth Control programme has once again come to the fore.

The Hindu

Preparations on for implementation of ABC programme in Ernakulam

District panchayat president Ullas Thomas has said that preparations are in the final stages for effective implementation of the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme in Ernakulam

The Hindu

Boy’s death brings focus back on vaccination, sterilisation of stray dogs

The mauling to death of an 11-year-old boy by street dogs at Muzhappilangad in Kannur on Sunday has brought back into focus the animal birth control (ABC) activities in Kerala.

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: huge disparities in birth control prescriptions across England

GPs in richest areas and those with lowest ethnic minority populations spend most on birth control per 1,000 women

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I stopped taking hormonal contraception six months ago - and I've been shocked by how much better I feel

As Davina McCall's new show Pill Revolution airs, Health Editor Ally Head takes a stark look at how the pill affected her mental wellbeing.

LiveScience

Gene therapy could be used as birth control for cats, small study suggests

A new study shows that gene therapy could be an effective form of birth control for cats.

The Hindu

Tackling the human-dog conflict

The Prevention of Cruelty (Animal Birth Control) Rules 2023 is a humane approach that balances out the welfare of dogs while taking into consideration the concerns of humans

Inverse

The FDA Just Approved a Game-Changing OTC Birth Control Pill — Should You Switch to It?

The Opill contains a low dose of progestin at 0.075 milligrams per pill, and has to be taken at the same time every day.

The Hindu

Row over gifting of make-up kits with condoms at mass wedding in Madhya Pradesh

A political controversy was triggered in Madhya Pradesh after condoms and birth control pills were found in make-up kits gifted to brides during a mass marriage programme under a government scheme in Jhabua district on Monday.

Salon

AOC blasts Boebert over birth control

"Then she voted against the right to contraception so she could double this problem and give it to the next person"

The Independent UK

AOC mocks Lauren Boebert over claim she had her third son because birth control was too expensive

Boebert has voted against expanding contraception access

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