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IUD

[ahy-yoo-dee] / ˈaɪˈjuˈdi /


NOUN
intrauterine device
Synonyms
WEAK
Dalkon Shield™ Lippes loop


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"I realised everything it had cost me -- all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD," said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

By the late 1970s, one in two Greenlandic women of childbearing age -- at least 4,070 women -- had been fitted with an IUD, according to an investigation presented in September 2025.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

The next step is to expand the product’s reach to even more clinicians who perform IUD placements.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2026

Many clinicians point to the paracervical block—a simple, targeted injection of a local anesthetic around the cervix—as a way to greatly reduce pain during IUD insertions.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2026

Isabella Spector went to the Roseville, Calif., clinic to get her IUD taken out so she and her husband could start a family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026


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