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A new type of male contraceptive could be created thanks to the discovery of a key gene essential for sperm development.

The birth control shot Depo Provera offers a convenient alternative for women who don't want to remember to take a daily pill. Ironically, research from Arizona State University has shown the shot actually may impair a person's memory.

I think this new birth control method will face the same problem they all do: the wacky abstinence-only crowd will reject it. But then I had a brilliant idea: instead of making it with a homeopathic dilution of fetuses, I'm...

What does the female orgasm have to do with dusty, old fossils? Believe it or not, the answer is Marie Stopes.

Several centuries worth of contraceptive choices...

For four decades, the pill has put women primarily in the contraceptive driver's seat. But an increasing number of people -- both men and women -- want men to take a more active role in contraception use. Their wish may soon be granted. Find out how the male “pill” will work.