Plan B (drug)

President Obama spit his game, as the kids say, when he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at a Planned Parenthood conference a little over a week ago: “You’re making me blush,” he cooed to their thunderous applause. “I love you back.&...

The Food and Drug Administration's approval of over-the-counter sales of an emergency contraception "morning-after pill" sparked debate in Alaska Wednesday. The FDA's Tuesday decision allows the "morning-after pill" Plan B to be sold to women and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it would allow the Plan B One-Step contraceptive to be sold without a prescription to girls as young as 15 years of age. The announcement partially reverses a December 2011...

By Steve Holland MEXICO CITY, May 2 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he is comfortable with a U.S. government agency's decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill for anyone 15 and older. Some critics have...

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. FRIENDS OF BOMB SUSPECT ACCUSED OF PROTECTING HIM Three classmates of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of lying to investigators and conspiring...

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. FRIENDS OF BOMB SUSPECT ACCUSED OF PROTECTING HIM Three classmates of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of lying to investigators and conspiring to...

Births A daughter, Hadley May Meadows, was born to Stephanie and Jeremiah Meadows of Boyne City on Friday, April 26, 2013, at Charlevoix Area Hospital. Hadley weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long at birth. Her siblings are Paris Meadows...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it has approved the sale of the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B One-Step, without a prescription for females ages 15 and older. The action comes roughly three weeks after a federal...

Just one day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced changes to the morning-after pill, many are asking themselves how young is too young? The pill, also known as Plan B One-Step, has always been a hot topic and many said the changes are...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - UPDATE: The Justice Department filed an appeal Wednesday over the federal judge's ruling allowing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to lower the age requirement from 17 to 15 years old for emergency contraception to be available...

The U.S. attorney's office announced late Wednesday that it would appeal a federal judge's decision to make Plan B One-Step and related emergency birth control pills available to consumers of all ages without a prescription. In papers filed with the U....

Opinions about the FDA's approval of the Plan B One-Step contraceptive pill for girls as young as 15 varied sharply among Connecticut groups based on political and social ideology. Planned Parenthood of Southern New England said it supported the...