Updated CDC guidance encourages doctors to discuss pain relief methods before an IUD insertion. Here's what you should know.

The traditional copper IUD functions without hormonal ... including popular brands such as Mirena and Kyleena, release levonorgestrel, a synthetic form of progesterone, to prevent pregnancy.

While catching up with a friend, Mallory Tatman discovered they were both getting intrauterine device (IUD) insertions in the coming weeks. But, the experience that followed was jarring.

An analysis by Danish researchers found 14 extra cases of breast cancer per 10,000 women using this type of an intrauterine device (IUD) vs women not using hormonal contraceptives. The ...

France may introduce changes to its rape law to include consent for the first time, after a mass rape trial shook the country, challenging the limits of existing legislation and prompting some ...

When she went for a follow-up days later, hospital staff again had to seek consent from her jailed grandmother. By her next appointment, her grandmother had signed a power-of-attorney form ...

Most of the time your partner won’t feel your IUD — but it’s possible. Usually your partners won’t be able to feel the IUD strings with their penis during sex, but every once in a while some people ...

Someone asked us: I want to get an IUD. Do I have to go with a parent? Is it covered by my insurance? Most of the time you don’t need a parent’s permission to get birth control, but the laws are ...

This mimics the body's natural progesterone hormone. Both the copper and hormonal types of IUD are highly effective at preventing pregnancy over many years. Fertility is readily restored when they ...

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Respecting "individual autonomy" through "[f]ree and informed consent" that is given voluntarily by the person who will ...

He has no commercial relationship with any IUD manufacturer. A new study has found a link between hormonal intrauterine devices (IUDs) and breast cancer. The research is important, but media ...

The research looked at 78,595 women in Denmark between the ages of 15 to 49 years who used levonorgestrel IUDs, which in the United States are known by the brand names Mirena, Liletta, Kyleena and ...