Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women who received a contraceptive implant 30 minutes, 72 hours or 6 weeks after delivery all achieved ...

A contraceptive implant also known as a “birth control implant” is a small flexible rod-like device (1.6 inches long) that is inserted into the inner area of the arm. Its release of hormone progestin ...

In an extremely rare case, a woman's contraceptive implant migrated from her upper arm to her left lung. The woman, who's based in the U.K. and in her 30s, consulted doctors after noticing that she ...

A woman in her late 30s presented with a complaint of not being able to palpate the subdermal contraceptive implant in her left arm, which was inserted 6 years earlier. An x-ray revealed a ...