Detecting early pregnancy loss In a pioneering prospective study published in 1980, conception was identified by detecting the pregnancy-specific hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in urine ...

Pregnancy reshapes the brain more profoundly than scientists ever imagined – and a landmark new study is finally mapping exactly how.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who conceive in the springtime may be more likely to deliver before 37 weeks gestation than women who conceive at other times of the year, two researchers from the ...

Ovulation is the most crucial event in the journey toward pregnancy, with Week 1 acting as the preparation phase.

A population-based cohort study evaluated the risk for spontaneous pregnancy loss and congenital anomalies in offspring of women exposed to computed tomography (CT) ionizing radiation before ...

One of my abiding memories of the politics class at my high school was when we learnt about Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), the feminist and author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist ...

Biologists have built up one of the most detailed pictures ever of the changes that occur in women’s bodies before and after pregnancy, by pooling and studying around 44 million physiological ...