Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as young as 12, had a contraceptive device implanted in their womb - often without consent - as part of a Danish campaign to control Greenland's growing ...

Hormonal coils have become increasingly popular in recent years, but a recent study found an unexpected association between the hormonal coil and an increased risk of breast cancer. Although the ...

COPENHAGEN, DenmarkCOPENHAGEN, Denmark — A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and ...

When Molly*, 29, went to get the copper coil, her doctor said that in a previous fitting, they had ruptured a patient’s uterus wall. “They assured me that it had only happened once and it was years ...

A new mother was mistakenly fitted with a contraceptive coil in a surgery mix-up at an NHS hospital in Wales, it has been revealed. The contraceptive blunder came just minutes after the woman had a ...

Imagine it: your contraceptive implant is due to be replaced so you contact the sexual health clinic where you got it, only to be told there are no appointments for four months. You visit your GP – ...

Hannah, a 24-year-old student from west Surrey, is among this number. She is now dealing with painful and life-changing vaginismus after a coil fitting which, she says, left her "in agony". Vaginismus ...

Sadia Aslam had no idea her life would change beyond recognition after getting a contraceptive device fitted, leaving her “crippled in pain” and needing a hysterectomy. “I would be waking up [feeling] ...