Depo-Provera

In September 2025, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic published a new study linking the Depo-Provera birth control shot with an increased risk of being diagnosed with a meningioma—a common type of brain tumor. Featured in the prestigious medical journal JAMA Neurology, this is the third academic study to identify a […]

In March 2024, a well-respected medical journal published a study linking the Depo-Provera birth control shot (known as medroxyprogesterone) to an increased risk of brain tumors called meningiomas. The British Medical Journal found that using the Depo shot for at least one year could make women over FIVE TIMES more likely to develop meningiomas than