Ahead of the government's response this week to a Senate inquiry into access to reproductive health care in Australia, the ...

Anderson, 25, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, asked her doctor how much it might cost. At the time, she was working in a U.S.

Birth control methods such as pills, implants, shots ... progesterone that can be taken as pills or placed in the uterus as an IUD. Intrauterine device—The IUD called Mirena is often used ...

If the egg isn’t fertilized by sperm, or if the fertilized egg fails to implant in the uterine wall ... Some methods, like the hormonal IUD, do this automatically, while others can be adapted ...

Ahead of the government's response this week to a Senate inquiry into access to reproductive health care in Australia, the government has announced ...

If any ova were to be fertilized, implantation in the altered uterine environment would be unlikely. Widely used in Europe, but not yet available in the US, is a levonorgestrel-containing IUD.

Alyra Biotech has developed products to turn down the excess immune activation in the uterus to reduce these symptoms. A low dose immune inhibitor is added to the IUD for sustained release ...

Yashkin Ilya/Shutterstock The levonorgestrel in hormonal IUDs acts locally inside the uterus to thin ... 6% of women use an IUD and another 5% use the contraceptive implant. This compares with ...

IUDs are small devices that are implanted in the uterus to prevent ... while a copper IUD can last up to ten years, depending on the type. The contraceptive implant protects against pregnancy ...