Natalie Morales, an anchor on NBC's "The Today Show," speaks with Natalie Azar, a physician and NBC News medical contributor, about a new CDC report that found "a big increase in the number of women who use long-acting reversible contraceptives."
Azar credits the increase in LARC use to "much improved safety," high efficacy and the increasing number of gynecologists who are "recommending [LARC] as first-line therapy in the last decade." Azar also quells safety concerns about the methods, noting, "[T]he science says that they are safe, they are over 99% effective, they are reversible ... and [have] very, very few side effects" (Morales, "The Today Show, NBC, 11/10).
