Combined oral contraceptive pill

The birth control pill is about to become over-the-counter in the United States. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the daily tablet medication Opill for nonprescription use. The drug’s makers expect the OTC version to be available in stores by early 2024, though its price is still unknown at this time.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewOpill has been an approved form of hormonal birth control for about 50 years. Its only active ingredient is norgestrel, a synthetic…

An effective pill for obesity treatment looks to be within reach. This week, Novo Nordisk announced the results of a Phase III clinical trial testing out an oral version of its in-demand drug semaglutide. The once-daily pill not only substantially outperformed a placebo but did as well as the injectable form of the drug—an already-approved medicine called Wegovy—with participants losing 15% of their body weight on average.Mental Health Apps Are a Privacy NightmareSemaglutide belongs to a class of drugs called GLP-1…

A recently approved preventative migraine drug called atogepant (branded Qulipta) seems to help even the most difficult cases, preliminary research out this week has found. The study showed that patients who hadn’t responded to other treatments experienced noticeably fewer days without migraine while on atogepant than those given a placebo. The Food and Drug Administration expanded the drug’s intended use this month, approving it for adults with chronic migraines.Won’t Virtual Reality Make Me Sick?Atogepant was developed…

Image: Photo: Shutterstock Graphics: Vicky LetaThe invention of birth control provided women with a degree of reproductive freedom that past generations never had, and today there is a great variety of options: pills, rings, gels, vaginal sponges, long-acting implants, surgery, and specialized condoms. Men, on the other hand, only have condoms and the surgical, usually permanent option of a vasectomy. But a team of researchers now believes they’re on the brink of bringing the first novel kind of male contraceptive to the…

Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)A drugmaker is now officially making the case for an over-the-counter birth control pill to be sold in the U.S. On Monday, the company HRA Pharma said it has submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration to approve an OTC version of its existing contraceptive product. The move comes amid an ongoing effort by the Republican party to restrict women’s reproductive rights at the state level.More than 60% of women between the ages of 15 and49 are estimated to use some form of…

A photo of Plan B One-StepPhoto: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Pharmacy chains around the U.S have started to limit the amount of emergency contraceptive pills customers can purchase. This comes after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court.“Due to increased demand, at this time we are limiting the purchases of Plan B contraceptive pills to three per customer,” a Rite Aid representative told CNN. CVS will also be limiting the purchase of Plan B and Aftera across all CVS Pharmacy stores and itswebsite CVS.com…