The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring new labels on a birth control patch that delivers hormones through the skin. The new labels will explain that women will end up with a higher level ...

WASHINGTON -- American women may soon buy the world's first birth control in a skin patch. The Food and Drug Administration approved Ortho-Evra on Tuesday, a patch that prevents pregnancy by emitting ...

Astudy published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows women are more likely to use a new birth control patch than the pill. The new birth control patch is supposed to ...

WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials approved sale of the world's first contraceptive patch yesterday, giving women an option considered as safe and effective as the pill but easier for some to use.

The new labeling for the patch will include information about the higher levels of estrogen.The Ortho Evra contraceptive patch, produced by Ortho McNeil Pharmaceuticals, a unit of Johnson & Johnson ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The birth control pill has been the most prescribed contraceptive for decades. New research and science have led to several newer options for reversible birth control methods ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The label for a Johnson & Johnson contraceptive patch will include new data from a second study showing a higher risk of blood clots compared with birth-control pills, U ...

The patch supplies norelgestromin and ethinyl estradiol to the bloodstream through the skin. Has any evidence of genital swelling been documented with the use of the patch when placed inappropriately?

EE: Ethinyl estradiol; LNG: Levonorgestrel; OC: Oral contraceptive; RR: Relative risk; VTE: Venous thromboembolism. Transdermal contraceptive patches provide a more convenient delivery system for ...