A mother says years of painful headaches and speech issues from brain tumors were caused by prolonged use of a Pfizer birth control shot, according to a lawsuit filed Nov. 14 in Nevada Federal ...

For years, preventing pregnancy in the US has meant choosing between the lesser of several annoyances: remembering a daily ...

The FDA approved a new safety warning for Depo-Provera alerting patients to a possible risk for a type of brain tumor called ...

Women injected with the Depo-Provera birth control shot are more than five-times more likely to be diagnosed with a type of brain tumors known as meningioma, according to a recent study. Several ...

As of 2025, lawsuits are now underway against Pfizer, the manufacturer of Depo-Provera, filed by women who were diagnosed with meningioma after using the birth control shot. These cases allege that ...

In 2019, Alyssa, a Kansas City native, was attending her freshman year of college in Washington, DC, when she needed her birth control shot administered. She went to her university’s busy hospital and ...

A woman who developed brain tumors following long-term birth control shot use has filed a suit against the drug’s developer, Pfizer. National Cancer Institute via Unsplash A mother says years of ...

The decision comes as Pfizer faces lawsuits from more than 1000 women who say the company knew about the risks and didn’t warn them. The agency signed off last week on a label update for 2 versions of ...