Nearly 600 women who used a popular contraceptive implant have had unwanted pregnancies despite believing it would stop them conceiving for up to three years. Complaints about scarring, incorrect ...

Nearly 600 women have become pregnant despite using a popular contraceptive implant, a health watchdog has said. There have also been more than 1,600 reports of adverse reactions to the Implanon ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new "set-it-and-forget-it" birth control method for women, and The Early Show medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay explained more about it on ...

The beauty of contraceptive implants is that, once a doctor has tucked one under a woman's skin, she shouldn't have to worry about birth control for several years. At least, that's the theory. But ...

Quite a few women have reported accidental and unwanted pregnancies while using Implanon, a hormone implant injected into the arm which is designed to last three years. Although the hormonal implant ...

The Department of Health says around 1.4 million women have used Implanon since 1999 Nearly 600 women have become pregnant despite using a popular contraceptive implant, a health watchdog has said.

Australian doctors groups have defended the use of long-acting contraceptives, saying Implanon and Mirena are safe and effective in preventing pregnancy. Doctors defend safety and effectiveness of ...

A Cochrane Systematic Review that set out to assess the effectiveness and tolerability of subdermal implantable contraceptives compared to other reversible methods of contraception found that they ...

More than 500 women have fallen pregnant despite using a popular contraceptive implant, according to new figures. Thousands had the £90 Implanon implant fitted, which was designed to stop women ...

The implant is over 99 per cent effective, which means less than one in 1,000 women using it over three years will become pregnant. I've heard that Implanon can make pregnancy tests inaccurate, ...