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 ...

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 ...

Did you know while tubal ligation is an extremely effective method for preventing pregnancy, it does not offer complete certainty? For the uninitiated, this health procedure is done either as an open ...

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 ...

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 ...

IUDs work at least as well as tubal ligation, while causing fewer side effects, according to a new study. IUDs work at least as well as tubal ligation, while causing fewer side effects, according to a ...

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 ...

Although tubal ligation is a minor surgical procedure, it should only be performed in a well-equipped medical facility. PHOTO / NET There are many things to get done this year, many life-altering ...

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 ...

An employee’s elective tubal ligation - surgical procedure to prevent pregnancy - caused emotional and social ramifications that affected her work, as supported by the findings of her primary treating ...