Gynecology nurse practitioner Stephanie Edwards-Latchu has performed over 450 intrauterine device insertions. Some women will barely notice when the device is placed, she said, but others report ...

Getting an intrauterine device (aka IUD) is a big decision. For all the people who adore their IUDs (myself included), there ...

Democrats gathering in Chicago were greeted with a giant inflatable intrauterine device, trucks offering free vasectomies, condoms condemning Project 2025 and several speakers focused on using the ...

But some of the worst pain that Stewart has ever experienced was getting an IUD inserted in 2017. An intrauterine device, or IUD, is one of the most effective types of birth control, though some ...

When Carli removed her own intrauterine device while sitting in a warm bath, she was elated. IUD in hand, “I threw on a towel and ran to my partner,” she told me. “I was just like ...

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 ...

The cost of an IUD (intrauterine device) is free for most people who have health insurance. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most health insurance plans to fully cover IUDs and other women's ...

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 ...

When can I use an IUD? and so there's a string with the IUD that allows for bacteria to go up into your uterus and out the fallopian tubes and cause a possibility of pelvic inflammatory disease ...

Culturally, this marks a monumental shift toward doctors taking and treating IUD pain—and gynecological pain, generally—more seriously. But practically, it probably won't make your insertion ...

A group called Americans for Contraception erected an 18-foot-tall inflatable intrauterine device (IUD) dubbed "Freeda Womb," which has also been criticized as bizarre by conservatives.