When you’re on birth control, your body gets a steady dose of hormones that help prevent pregnancy by stopping ovulation (the ...

By analyzing all live births in Canada over a six-year period and following children for more than two decades, researchers found that preterm births and the related cognitive, development and ...

Today's health news includes a study on screen time and autism and new data on redundant Medicare Advantage spending.

Fewer people have tied the knot so far this year than in the same period during the height of China's strict anti-pandemic ...

Anovulation means the ovaries do not release an egg. The way this affects periods is unique to individuals. Find a list of ...

From 1998 to 2023, there was a decline in the triplet and higher-order birth rate, according to an October data brief p ...

A menstrual cup is a flexible device that's placed in the vagina to collect menstrual blood during your period. Using a menstrual cup may take practice at first.

Access to effective birth control has become more critical than ever in wake of U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade ...

Although China abandoned its 35-year-old one-child policy in 2015, it has struggled to get the birth rate up, particularly as the period saw rural people stream into the cities for jobs. Education is ...

There are high rates of single embryo transfer in some countries but other countries that require transfer of all fertilized embryos still have higher multiple birth rates. Per cycle reporting of ...

They argue that birth control methods do not cause abortions ... In nature, about half all fertilized eggs are lost before a woman misses a period, according to the University of California ...