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Hormonal IUD as Effective as a Copper IUD at Emergency Contraception and With Less Discomfort, NICHD-Funded Study Suggests
February 05, 2021
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Feb. 5 -- The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child's Health and Human Development issued the following news release:

A hormone-releasing intrauterine device (IUD) appears to be as effective at emergency contraception as a copper IUD, suggests a study funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The hormone-releasing IUD contains levonorgestrel, a syn . . .

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