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Pharmaceuticals Birth Control Pills Are Safe and Simple: Why Do They Require a Prescription? The risks associated with hormonal contraception are lower than the risk of pregnancy itself and comparable to those of other over-the-counter drugs By Mariana Lenharo

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Education Predatory Journals That Publish Shoddy Research Put People's Lives at Risk Doctors may accept spurious claims about medical treatments, and invalid studies wrongly influence public policy By Naomi Oreskes

FROM THE ARCHIVE Why Women--and Men--Need Better Birth Control The IUD is held up as the gold standard of contraception. That says a lot about the slothful pace of innovation By Maya Dusenbery | May 2019

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