"Getting your tubes tied" is a colloquial way to say that someone is undergoing tubal ligation, a sterilizing surgical procedure that involves closing off the fallopian tubes. In non-medically ...

When researching her symptoms online, Niles stumbled across a condition called post-tubal ligation syndrome (PTLS). The ...

Young women were also twice as likely to get permanent contraception procedures as young men following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in 2022, researchers report. (CN) — The political effects of ...

A new study of more than 83,000 women in California challenges the notion that tubal ligation is superior to intrauterine contraception for the prevention of pregnancy. Tubal ligation remains a common ...

Maybe you’ve had your desired number of kids or you’ve made the choice not to become a biological parent. Either reason could be why you’re considering permanent birth control. We’ve got the details ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobb decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to have an abortion, many are reconsidering their birth control and pregnancy ...

Ashley Steffen went under the knife about a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, reversing the constitutional right to abortion. Steffen, 37, of Lansing, is among a ...

Immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Google recorded the highest volume of searches for “vasectomy” in the past five years. Last year, published data in the International ...

Ellen Hanrahan, a 36-year-old mother of two, was done having children. To make sure, she had tiny metal coils implanted inside her fallopian tubes, a relatively new form of permanent birth control ...