Maeve McDermott loves her IUD. Actually, she says, she’s “obsessed” with it. “I always had issues with the various birth control pills I tried,” says McDermott, a 23-year-old Washington journalist.

When I was first introduced to the world of intrauterine devices (IUDs), I had decided that I no longer wanted to take birth-control pills and had began looking for ...

Last month, New York City journalist Hayley MacMillen penned an open breakup letter to her IUD, ParaGard. In her own words, here were some of the pros: "I loved that you were non-hormonal and wouldn't ...

Copper-bearing intrauterine contraceptive device. Uterine abnormality. Uterine or cervical malignancy. Pelvic inflammatory disease or risk thereof. Postpartum or postabortal endometritis in the past 3 ...

To continue our ongoing series of gynecological topics, I have decided to write about intrauterine devices (IUDs) as a form of birth control. Even though I learned about IUDs through many outlets (sex ...