The fall of Roe v. Wade stands to dramatically shake up contraception trends. In the days following the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling, clinics began to report a surge in people requesting tubal ...

Twelve academic and private clinical sites across the U.S. broaden patient access to the pivotal trial as Femasys advances ...

Franziska Bohm long knew she didn't want kids and asked her family doctor to have her tubes tied, known officially as tubal ligation. At 28, she had her fallopian tubes removed after the surgeon ...

Publication of positive data in a leading peer-reviewed journal enhances credibility and visibility for FemBloc, attracting interest from the medical community. The reported pregnancy rate of 0% among ...

Many women spend decades using birth control of one kind or another, except for when they’re trying to conceive or are pregnant. So when you know you’re done having babies or if you plan to stay child ...

One Florida woman paid $6,000 for a permanent form of birth control. And, she’s certain that no one could possibly talk her out of the decision to remove her fallopian tubes. Theechainmaiden ...

Femasys Inc. announced the achievement of CE mark certification for the FemBloc delivery system, marking it as the first regulatory approval in the world for a non-surgical permanent birth control ...

When the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion in June 2022, some friends and family of Jacqueline Ellison (SPH’20) underwent or considered “permanent contraception”—vasectomies and ...

Getting your tubes tied is not the most appealing phrase, but it’s way more user-friendly than sterilization. Maybe that’s why the maker of Essure–a newer, cheaper, faster, scalpel-free alternative to ...

The Essure system, now owned by Bayer after it acquired Conceptus in 2013, is intended to provide non-surgical permanent birth control. The Essure nickel-titanium alloy inserts, which look like small ...