Chemistry professor Samantha Gateman saw the negative side effects of copper IUDs and is leading efforts to create an alternative IUD made of iron.

Doctors receive minimal education about weight stigma and obesity and can carry their own internalized weight bias into appointments—especially given the focus on BMI, which throws patients into ...

In particular, the almost $170 million commitment to making Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) such as IUD’s more widely available is a “hugely positive move,” she said.

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

IUDs are small devices implanted in the uterus to prevent pregnancy. Finding a doctor to insert an IUD can be difficult and ...

Callie Anderson, 25, received a bill for $14,658 after her health insurance denied coverage for her IUD, which is typically ...

A physician or other practitioner uses a tube to insert the IUD, passing it through the cervix and releasing it into the ...

The Affordable Care Act requires health plans to cover preventive care, including contraception. But “grandfathered” plans — those that existed before the act became law and have not changed ...

Instead, she decided to get an IUD, also known as an intrauterine device, which is a small piece of plastic that is inserted into the uterus to prevent pregnancy. She was told by her doctor that ...

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