Efficient, convenient, and reversible, the pill freed many women from more intrusive forms of birth control and conformed to a changing, more liberated lifestyle. Birth control methods have a wide range of benefits other than pregnancy prevention they can help you protect your health. WHO publishes results of a new study on oral contraceptives and the risk of stroke Oral contraceptive pills containing an estrogen and a progestogen have been in use since around 1960. Today there are some 60 million users of this method worldwide.
Oral pills owe their popularity to their high effectiveness and convenience of use.
Since its introduction, it has been used by more than 60 million women worldwide. It has proved to be, in the opinion of many, the most socially significant medical advance of the century. A correlation between estrogen and increased risk of breast cancer has sparked continuing controversy about a possible link between OCs and cancer.