Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The surgery to remove both fallopian tubes is called a bilateral salpingectomy. (Getty Images) (SvetaZi via Getty Images) Ovarian ...

Island surgeons are being encouraged to offer patients the chance to have their fallopian tubes removed during other ...

When the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights in the U.S. in June, Molly, a 38-year-old athletic trainer based in Ohio, made a medical decision that allowed her to take contraception into ...

The Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance is recommending an aggressive ovarian cancer prevention strategy: Remove a patient’s fallopian tubes if that person is undergoing pelvic surgery, The Washington ...

The fallopian tubes—long, slender structures connecting the ovaries and the uterus—play an important role in women’s reproductive health. Their fringed ends collect the egg from the ovary, coaxing it ...

More than two-thirds of women with ovarian cancer have high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC). Up to 90 percent of HGSCs are not detected until they are beyond the ovaries or fallopian tubes, at which ...

Removing fallopian tubes during sterilization is about as safe as sterilization procedures that damage the tubes but leave them intact, a new study suggests — a finding that could help reduce some ...

The root of many ovarian tumors may be found in the fallopian tubes, a new study from Johns Hopkins suggests. The findings provide potential insights into the origin of ovarian cancer and suggest new ...

In addition to the lack of early symptoms, late stage diagnosis occurs because there is no effective way to screen for or diagnose ovarian cancer in its earliest forms. A recent study of hundreds of ...

Well, that’s one way to get your tubes tied. A 22-year-old woman has opted to get her fallopian tubes extracted from her body and she turned them into a piece of jewelry to tether around her neck.

Multiple forms of birth control failed me and affected my quality of life. I feared being stuck with a man for the rest of my life if I accidentally got pregnant. I removed my tubes as a form of birth ...

KEARNEY, Missouri -- Elizabeth Kough, a mom of four, said she hugs her newborn son, Benjamin, "a little tighter" because of the miraculous way he came into this world. Kough, 39, is still also in ...