Bayer's big-selling contraceptive Mirena has been approved in Europe to provide up to eight years of pregnancy protection, which the company says is the longest of any device of its kind.

The hormone in the Mirena may sometimes stop ovulation. Mirena gives you the advantages of the coil and those of hormonal contraception like the pill without the side effects of either.

Then, late last year, she was referred to the Menstrual Disorder Clinic at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham where, in a pioneering technique, doctors are using the Mirena contraceptive coil to ...

Hormonal coils, which release low levels of hormones into the body, are one of two types of contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD). The other is the so-called "copper" coil, which doesn't release ...

“The Mirena coil is great in midlife because it acts as contraception, but can also make periods lighter (heavy periods are ...

There’s much to remember about contraception and many ... she advised me that the Mirena IUD might be a better option for me as the copper coil can make periods heavier, and I get painful ...

In the case of the new mum she had the mirena coil implanted after having a caesarean section. This procedure had been planned for a different patient. Last year, the Betsi Cadwaladr University ...

and it's a great form of birth control. They don't have to think about. And, like I said the new Mirena IUD can even make their periods lighter. And most women are thrilled. They don't want ...

A Kenyan woman had her IUD disappear only to be discovered embedded far into the Fallopian tube (Shutterstock) Promoters of the coil, also known as the IUD contraceptive, will normally say reports ...