The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued new guidance on managing pain during IUD insertion, but doctors say the updated advice — while a step in the right direction — doesn’t ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated recommendations for doctors offering birth control to their patients, including a new plea for doctors to give women more options of ...

A classic tenaculum (left) to grab and pull the cervix during IUD insertions and the new tool Aspivix is offering to replace it (right). In August last year, the Center of Disease Control and ...

Meridian clinic is a ‘lifeline,’ providing routine reproductive health care that the state doesn’t have the infrastructure to ...

Millions of American women use some form of contraception to prevent pregnancy, and one of the most popular forms is an intrauterine device, or IUD. Lately, IUDs have been going viral not because of ...

When the lidocaine was injected into her cervix, Leah Wells said it felt like fuzzy lightning traveling up her body. In addition to numbing her cervix, the medication made her mouth tingle, and she ...

The increase reported was specifically for Nov. 6, 2024, as compared with Nov. 5, 2024. Further, the "1200% increase in vasectomies" was for vasectomy appointments made on that date, not the number of ...

A woman who went to the hospital because she thought her IUD was causing painful cramps was left speechless when doctors told her the actual cause. TikTok user Nat (@mamacitanat) went viral after ...