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 ...

Short of abstinence, no birth control method is ever 100% guaranteed to prevent pregnancy. Even when it comes to "getting your tubes tied" in a procedure called tubal ligation. Tubal ligation is not ...

When we talk about birth control, there’s one option that’s often left out of the discussion: getting your tubes tied. During a tubal ligation, your fallopian tubes — where the eggs normally travel ...

For many women who don’t want to have more children, childbirth offers a safe and convenient time for adopting the permanent form of birth control known formally as tubal ligation, and informally as ...

Would you recommend the permanent sterilization procedure Essure, which involves insertion of flexible coils to create blockage of the fallopian tubes, over tubal ligation? Have there been any reports ...

L.A.-resident Ilana (who asked that her last name be withheld), never wanted kids, "even thinking back to when I was a kid," the 29-year-old, who recently had a tubal ligation, tells Yahoo Life. She ...

William Beaumont Army Medical Center performed its first robotic-assisted surgery for tubal re-anastomosis at WBAMC, Dec. 28, 2016. Tubal re-anastomosis, more commonly known as tubal ligation reversal ...

Dignity Health declined to discuss the lawsuit but said its refusal to perform the tubal ligation procedure is in keeping with its religious directives. It said procedures that induce sterility are ...

Most women who are in their reproductive years use some form of contraception when they wish to avoid pregnancy; calendar, barrier, hormonal, intrauterine, surgical, and male contraceptive options are ...