There’s currently no reliable screening test for ovarian cancer, meaning that most cases are caught at an advanced stage, ...

"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 ...

And such was the case for a TikToker who recently shared her experience getting rejected from tubal ligation surgery, which caught the attention of Fran Haydanek, an OB-GYN from Rochester, New York.

Removing the fallopian tubes during routine gynecological surgery reduced the risk of serous ovarian cancer by nearly 80%.

Having the “tubes tied”— also known as “tubal ligation,” involves cutting, clipping or burning the ends of a woman’s fallopian tubes. Those are the tubes that carry the fertilized egg to the uterus.

Tubal ligation (sterilization) is a procedure where a surgeon permanently cuts, closes, or removes pieces of a person’s fallopian tubes. Tubal ligation is a permanent form of birth control that is ...

Tubal ligation has been touted as a permanent form of birth control, but a new study shows that women are more likely than previously thought to get pregnant after the procedure. The study, published ...

Mercy Hospital in Durango, the only hospital with labor and delivery services within 45 miles, plans to stop performing tubal ligation, a female sterilization procedure, in spring next year because ...

The day that Roe v. Wade was overturned, Flannery Fitch picked up the phone and scheduled an appointment to meet with her doctor. Fitch is a 35-year-old graduate student at UNC who has known from 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 ...