Hampshire County Council has approved spending up to £28.7 million over seven years to continue offering long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and NHS health checks across the region. LARC ...

Records suggest roughly half of all fertile females in Greenland received an IUD between 1966 and 1970, and the practice continued over the next few years. It led to the halving of the birthrate in ...

Hormonal birth control uses synthetic versions of the naturally occurring hormones estrogen and progesterone to prevent ...

Care gaps in women’s health are closing, thanks to increased cultural awareness of gendered healthcare disparities, according ...

Such concerns may in part explain emerging research that suggests the use of long-acting contraception such as intrauterine devices, or IUDs, and permanent contraception – namely, sterilization – are ...

This is because the drugs may be expelled from the body before they have an opportunity to be absorbed into the blood stream. People taking the contraceptive pill are advised to use a back-up ...

Women should use the most effective contraception to avoid pregnancy while taking 'skinny jabs', the drugs regulator says.

Don’t like having your period? Hormonal birth control can be used for more than just preventing pregnancy — it’s also a popular way to go months or even years without a period. Continuous ...

Birth control, or contraception, is a device, medication, or procedure that helps prevent pregnancy. Types include barrier methods, hormonal birth control pills, intrauterine devices (IUDs), and ...

Intrauterine Device (IUD) is a type of contraception that is effective and reliable. Here’s what to expect if you opt for the procedure.

MIUDELLA is a next-generation, hormone-free, low-dose copper intrauterine device or IUD, the first to be approved by the FDA in the United States in over 40 years.