The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed on Oct. 14, 2015. Federal health advisers said Wednesday, May 10, 2023, that a decades-old birth control pill should

The Pill, Over the Counter

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 14, 2023

For the first time, the FDA has approved over the counter sale of a birth control pill, called Opill. Colleen Denny, MD FACOG, director of Family Planning at NYU Brooklyn and associate professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at NYU School of Medicine, talks about the progestin-only contraceptive and the significance of a prescription-free pill. 

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