While catching up with a friend, Mallory Tatman discovered they were both getting intrauterine device (IUD) insertions in the coming weeks. But, the experience that followed was jarring. “I figured it ...

The nurse practitioner who inserted my IUD worked with the precision and speed of someone on a pit crew. Or, really—just someone working in the gynecology department of a student clinic at one of the ...

Miannica Frison was in the throes of labor in 2020 when a nurse entered her room at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. Frison was screaming in pain. But rather than see how she could help, Frison ...

Naja Lyberth was only 14 when a Danish doctor inserted an intrauterine device (IUD) into her vagina, like all the other girls in her hometown of Maniitsoq, Greenland. "It felt like knives were being ...

More than 1,400 women have lost a class action lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Bayer, with a Victorian judge rejecting their claims that a female contraceptive device caused major health problems ...

The leaders of Denmark and Greenland are offering their apologies for their governments' roles in the mistreatment of ...

BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women in the United States have used contraceptive methods banned by the church, research published on Wednesday showed. A new ...

A group of 67 women from Greenland on Monday filed claims for compensation from the Danish government for being fitted with intrauterine devices without their consent decades ago. Many of the women ...