Until about five years ago, scientists believed the pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), was the culprit.

After IVF, you may feel hopeful but also uncertain. This article explains three possible complications: OHSS, ectopic ...

At 38 weeks pregnant, you’re nearing the finish line! Learn what symptoms to expect, how your baby is preparing for birth, ...

Roman physicians recognized as early as 200 AD that women often have benign tumors in the walls of their uterus. Today, experts estimate that by age 50, some 70 percent of white women and more than 80 ...

Six absurdist signs resembling official city council information boards have popped up across New Zealand’s second-largest city Outside an abandoned building in New Zealand’s second-biggest city, a ...

Here’s what a pregnancy looks like inside a microfluidic chip. At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining of the ...

Some medical conditions that cause frequent night-time urination include incomplete bladder emptying due to an enlarged prostate, overactive bladder, urinary tract infections. For some people, getting ...

A team of around 30 medical specialists huddled over a 41-year-old woman earlier this year in Los Angeles as they carefully delivered her nearly full-term baby, who had unknowingly developed behind a ...

A Bakersfield woman left physicians stunned after they found an 8-pound baby growing outside of her uterus. Suze Lopez, 41, was already dealing with a major medical issue — a massive benign tumor on ...

Heart disease has long been the top killer of women in the United States, but new research suggests uterine fibroids, which many may not even be aware they have, could be putting them at a ...

Objectives: to evaluate the prevalence, clinical presentation, and surgical management outcomes of ectopic pregnancies in a tertiary hospital in Paraguay over a three-year period. Methods: this ...

For most of us, there is no “Aha!” moment that screams: It’s time to retire. But for many of us, there can be some surprising signals—like a flashing yellow traffic light inside your head. The signals ...