Editor’s note: This story was updated July 13, 2023, to reflect the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a nonprescription birth control pill. For the first time, people in the United ...

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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the oral contraceptive Opill for over-the-counter sales, making it the first hormonal contraceptive pill available in the U.S. without a ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators are weighing the first-ever request to make a birth control pill available without a prescription. But in an initial review posted Friday, the FDA raised numerous ...

Food and Drug Administration scientists on Friday expressed skepticism about whether the birth control pill can be switched from prescription to over-the-counter. The assessment by FDA staff, included ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators are weighing the first request to make a birth control pill available without a prescription. But in an initial review posted Friday, the Food and Drug ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are weighing the first-ever request to make a birth control pill available without a prescription. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meet next week ...