Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tubal ligation, sometimes known as female sterilization or "getting your tubes tied," is a permanent form of birth control. (Getty ...

Tubal ligation is known to be associated with a reduction in ovarian cancer risk. Associations with breast, endometrial and cervical cancers have been suggested. We investigated associations for 26 ...

A 25-year-old woman opened up about choosing tubal ligation and explained her reasons and experience while also revealing how ...

Medical professionals sometimes try to dissuade young people with a uterus from having a tubal ligation due to its permanence. However, there’s no legal age requirement for getting your tubes tied in ...

Local inflammation after tubal ligation may affect ovarian function and breast cancer risk. Tubal ligation was associated with hot flashes (hazard ratio (HR) 1.09; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.06–1 ...

More American women are choosing not to have children. Kelsey Silverstein, 27, is one of them. When she got married and realized her husband felt the same way, she decided to have sterilization ...

This large case-control study assessed the potential beneficial effects of tubal ligation and salpingectomy on ovarian cancer risk. Data on patient characteristics, morbidity/mortality, medication use ...

After Rebecca Revely had her third child, she and her husband decided their family was complete. Many women she knew had their tubes tied as a form of permanent birth control, so in 2013 the now ...

The long-term use of oral contraceptives and certain methods of tubal ligation (TL) were associated with lower levels of a biomarker for ovarian aging, suggesting an increased risk for early menopause ...

Nine months ago, Donna Fiorenza of Harvey, Australia gave birth at 40 years old to a baby girl named Ella. The birth was emotional for Fiorenza, because, as she told Australian newspaper Perth Now, ...

How does hemorrhoidal artery ligation (HAL) compare with rubber band ligation (RBL) for managing symptomatic second- and third-degree hemorrhoids? Brown and colleagues performed a multicenter, ...