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The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill. The daily oral contraceptive, called Opill, will be available without a prescription. The Food and Drug ...

But for most people, it is safe, with the typical side effects you'd see from any birth control pill - cramps, bloating, that kind of thing. An over-the-counter birth control pill is also ...

The FDA has now officially approved the U.S.’s first over-the-counter birth control pill. Opill is a progestin-only birth control pill that would be taken daily to prevent pregnancy.

But we don’t yet know how that will play out. Our research found that among people who were interested in using an over-the-counter birth control pill, the most that adults on average were ...

The over-the-counter birth control pill will not require medical examinations or prescriptions prior to purchase. Sergey Mironov/Moment via Getty Images ...

For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription, meaning it will be available to millions of people over the counter at ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the birth control pill Opill to be available over-the-counter — the first nonprescription birth control pill in the United States.