Yamah Kollie, 36, was shaken when a nurse at the Duport Health Center, in Liberia's Montserrado County, delivered unexpected news: she was pregnant.Upset and frustrated by this unplanned conception, ...

With birth control having lacked sufficient research for decades, millions of people using the contraceptive pill are left ...

Is it the perfect pill - or have the manufacturers got it wrong? In June 2000, trials on more than 2,000 women compared Yasmin with Microgynon and Marvelon - the two main contraceptive pills used ...

they have a higher failure rate than the combined oral contraceptives like; Microgynon, Diane 35 and Yasmin brands. How then should these “two simple pills” be taken to maximize their effect?

The decades-long dream of creating a male equivalent of 'the pill' is moving closer to reality. Scientists in the US have begun testing a hormone-free contraceptive tablet in men called YCT-529.

There are more than 30 different types of contraceptive pills. But brand names such as Microgynon, Levlen, Yaz and Brenda give little indication of the ingredients, dose or who should use them.