Like many healthcare providers across the U.S., McKenzie Rieder, a pediatric nurse practitioner for Mountain Family Health ...

A birth control implant is available as a rod about the size of a matchstick that can release hormones into the body and prevent pregnancies for up to 5 years. 2,3 A doctor inserts it into the upper ...

Sebela’s Miudella is the first hormone-free IUD approved by the FDA in four decades and the first IUD to use nitinol.

The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Victoria Pihl Sørensen, a Danish historian who has studied Denmark's IUD program ...

The pill is under fire on social media. So why is birth control being called "poison" - and what do doctors say?

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If you stop your birth control method early in pregnancy, you shouldn't experience damage to your health or your baby's.

Senate Bill 323 in South Carolina could redefine contraception, potentially limiting access to birth control methods for women.

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WESTWEGO, Louisiana — Robin Phillip’s fresh haircut is dyed her favorite color — green. But beneath the dye job is a scar that runs along the side of her head, the result of two craniotomies. For ...