...The lawsuit says the family also has "a sincere religious objection" to providing coverage for certain kinds of intrauterine devices and alleges they can cause the death of an embryo by preventing it from implanting in the wall of a woman's uterus...

...Instead, through Georgia Health Sciences University Cancer Center, she was offered an alternative ? an intrauterine device that releases small amounts of a contraceptive progestin mixture. Five years later, she is fine without the...

...percent of U.S. women use the most effective contraceptives ? a matchstick-size implant named Implanon or intrauterine devices known as IUDs. Once inserted, they prevent pregnancy for three, five or 10 years. Dr. Jeffrey Peipert, of...

...only 19 percent of the federal employee health insurers cover all five federally approved methods, which include intrauterine devices and the drugs Norplant and Depo-Provera. About 1.2 million women of childbearing ages in the federal work...

...of them smoked cigarettes, which are known to reduce fertility. Women who took birth-control pills or used intrauterine devices were omitted from the study. Participants were required to submit daily urine specimens and to provide information...

...company. That would dwarf previously costly product-liability settlements such as in the $2 billion Dalkon Shield intrauterine device case, points out A.M. Best & Co., the insurance rating company. Six lawsuits, including four class actions...

...physical. The outpatient contraceptive services covered by this bill include, oral contraceptives (the pill), intrauterine device, diaphragm, Norplant, and Depo-Provera. Of these five methods, only one, the diaphgragm lacks the potential...