For many women preparing for a scheduled cesarean section, the question of whether to add a permanent sterilization procedure creates an unexpected layer of complexity to an already significant ...

One simple add-on procedure to routine pelvic surgeries could potentially prevent thousands of deaths from ovarian cancer every year. Yet most women are never told it’s an option. The procedure, ...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that the chance of developing serous ovarian cancer was shown to be reduced by almost 80% when ...

The Season 35 alum had surgery in 2023 after a cancer scare.

A woman in her early 30s had conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Her rising hormone levels confirmed it. But the ...

The woman said she had been seeking a salpingectomy — a surgery that removes the fallopian tubes — after years of trying other birth control options.

But you might pay nothing or only a small amount, depending on your health insurance. That's because most health insurance plans are required to cover at least one type of female sterilization surgery ...

The discovery that most ovarian cancers start, not in the ovaries, but the Fallopian tubes, means there may be a way to help prevent a disease that kills about 1000 women in Australia each year. It ...

The decision by Ascension comes less than a year after Tennessee Republicans passed House Bill 1044 into law last April. The law, otherwise known as the Medical Ethics Defense Act, grants doctors and ...

Eligible patients can receive up to 70 per cent in subsidies for genetic tests, while MediShield Life coverage will be extended to selected risk-reducing surgical procedures.

On Friday, a Catholic hospital in Nashville canceled a woman’s scheduled sterilization surgery because the hospital’s religious ethics oversight committee was concerned that it was failing its “duty ...