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Birth Control Methods and The Risk of Blood Clots

You may have heard that birth control pills can give you blood clots. Birth control pills as well as patches, rings, and some IUDs use hormones to ...

Birth Control

How it works: You insert the gel into your vagina via applicator immediately before or up to one hour before sex. Cons: Must be put inside the vagi...

What is Tubal Ligation?

Tubal ligation is surgery women can get to 'tie” their fallopian tubes. You may have pain in your belly for a few days after the procedure. It depe...

Female Condoms

Twist the open end closed so that the semen stays inside and gently pull it out. Compare that to 2 out of 100 women whose partners always use male ...

Birth Control Pill and Breast Cancer Risk

Similar research found that 10 years or more after women stopped using birth control pills, their breast cancer risk returned to the same level as ...

Birth Control and The IUD (Intrauterine Device)

If you’re looking into your options for birth control, one method you may want to think about is the IUD. In rare cases, the size or shape of your ...

Getting Your Tubes Tied: Pros, Cons, what to Know

Tubal ligation -- also known as having your tubes tied -- is a kind of surgery that will keep you from ever getting pregnant. Only about one in 200...

Guide to Spermicide

Although you can use spermicide alone, it works better when you combine it with a condom or diaphragm. Spermicide condoms prevent pregnancy 87% of ...

Birth Control Pills

With continuous birth control pill use, you take an active pill every day and never have a period. But effects vary in part because the amount and ...

Condoms

A condom is a thin, fitted tube worn over the penis during sex (male condoms) or inserted into the vagina before sex (female condoms). That number ...

What is The Minipill?

The minipill is a type of birth control pill. But the minipill doesn’t block eggs as well as combination pills. With estrogen in combination birth ...

Birth Control: is The Diaphragm Right for You?

Women have been using the diaphragm for birth control in one form or another for hundreds of years. So if you put the diaphragm in hours ahead of t...