FDA Weighs Morning After Pill Teen Access
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Some see easy access to emergency contraception as a way to drastically reduce teen pregnancy, already on the decline since the early 1990s. Others worry that its long-term effects on young women are unknown or argue that the drug, also known as the "morning after pill," encourages teens to have sex.
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Young people are to be offered a much broader range of contraception in a bid to cut the high teenage pregnancy rate.
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An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration will meet today to decide whether a skin patch to heighten the sexual arousal of older women is safe and effective and should be licensed as a new drug.
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The Food and Drug Administration will add additional warnings to RU-48, the so-called &#39;morning after pill&#39; after the death of an 18 year-old California woman last year.
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WASHINGTON - American teenagers are waiting longer to engage in sexual intercourse and an overwhelming majority of those who are sexually active report using contraception, according to a comprehensive, well-respected government survey released Friday.
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Fall in teenage consumption raises doubts over plan to reclassify drug.
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A study pins declining US teenage pregnancy rates on better use of contraception - not abstinence.
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In a proactive program where  women can keep on hand at all times at least two free packages  of emergency contraceptives -- also known as the morning-after  pill or Plan B -- the pregnancy rates are no lower than when  women have normal access to emergency contraception, study  results suggest.
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The maker of a controversial pill used after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy - and linked to the death of a California teenager - is adding a new warning to the pill label indicating it can lead to serious bacterial infections.
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Easy access to a "morning after pill"  for contraception does not influence the degree to which women  have unprotected sex, according to a study published on  Tuesday.
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Chile began supplying morning-after pills to girls as young as 14 this week under a program that has created an uproar in the politically leftist but socially conservative country, which still outlaws all abortions and only legalized divorce two years ago.
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NEW YORK  - More than 90 percent of women between 15 and 24 years old consider contraceptive "morning after pills" to be safe and effective, according to a new report. However, the findings also show that easy accessibility to emergency contraception influences whether it is used promptly.
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Severe alcohol and drug abuse by teenagers may be easily missed during routine and urgent-care medical visits, particularly in girls.
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The FDA has only approved the vaccine for girls women up to age 26. Now a medical debate is raging over whether older women should get it too
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The manufacturer of the morning-after pill resubmitted an application Friday seeking federal approval to sell the emergency contraceptive without a prescription.
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Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening
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Laws aimed at forcing teens to get their parents' permission before getting contraception will do nothing to scare youngsters off having sex and may in fact increase rates of teen pregnancy, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.