Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female ...

Last summer, Britney Spears stunned the public when she revealed that her father, acting as her conservator, prevented her from removing her IUD. What shocked many people wasn't only the blatant ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although female sterilization is the most widely used modern contraceptive method in the world, most family planning programs in Africa have ...

Last week, 13 women died in India after undergoing sterilization procedures in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, possibly because of tainted pills administered after the surgery. This tragedy ...

Last week, Virginia became the second state to compensate victims of one of the most shameful acts in U.S. history: state-sponsored forced sterilization. Virginia has agreed to give each surviving ...

California will pay $7.5 million to surviving victims of its forced sterilization program. Eugenics, or the practice of sterilizing those determined by the state to be “feeble” or “undesirable,” began ...

After the state sterilized thousands of Californians without their consent, lawmakers offered reparations in 2021 by creating the Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program. But if ...

Tubal sterilization is one of the most effective and common methods of contraception worldwide. According to federal Medicaid policy, patients with publicly funded health insurance are required to ...

Marie Sanchez, chief tribal judge on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, arrived in Geneva in 1977 with a clear message to deliver to the United Nations Convention on Indigenous Rights. American Indian ...

ASCs should take note of the deficiencies that led to an investigation of Saddle Brook, N.J.-based HealthPlus Surgery Center in late 2018, said Excellentia Advisory Group President and Managing ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Since June 2023, hundreds of people who lived near or within a mile of Sterilization Services of Tennessee (SST) have filed lawsuits claiming injuries or death from ethylene oxide.

New research indicates the uptick in requests for sterilization following the Dobbs decision on abortion was not a temporary trend. Nationally, numbers of tubal ligations and vasectomies are up. After ...