Tubal ligation is a permanent voluntary form of birth control (contraception) in which a woman's Fallopian tubes are surgically cut or blocked off to prevent pregnancy. Tubal ligation is performed in women who definitely want to prevent future...

A vasectomy is a surgical procedure performed on males in which the vas deferens (tubes that carry sperm from the testicles to the seminal vesicles) are cut, tied, cauterized (burned or seared) or otherwise interrupted. The semen no longer contains...

Sterilization or Sterilisation is a surgical technique leaving a male or female unable to procreate. It is a method of birth control. For non-surgical causes of sterility, see infertility. Common sterilization methods...

Mail sterilization procedures criticized Postal workers complain of lingering illness, slowed overall delivery service By JAKE WAGMAN Knight Ridder News Service Sunday, August 11, 2002 Logan Township, N.J. -- Birthday cards for the president. Diplomats' messages to the State Department....

CHICAGO -- A novel method of occluding fallopian tubes may someday make sterilization an office-based procedure, Dennis R. Stewart, Ph.D., said during the annual meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The investigational procedure, which was developed by researchers at...

A northern Indian state said Thursday it planned to use unemployed youths to sterilize monkeys to try to combat aggressive primates who have been raiding farms. The idea drew immediate condemnation from conservationists, who said the plan was unscientific and would likely worsen the problem.Indian...

A bill that would require the sterilization of most dogs and cats in California was sidelined Wednesday until next year after senators failed to endorse it.The bill's author, Democratic Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, withdrew his proposal Wednesday rather than have it fail in the Senate Local...