In the past five years or so, it’s become something of a burgeoning wellness trend for women of reproductive age to question, or even outright quit, hormonal birth control.
Ob-gyn and gastro-enterologist experts share colorectal cancer screening methods and discuss persistent racial inequalities and disparities amongst Black patients.
Preeclampsia is a condition that can affect pregnant women, causing high blood pressure that increases the risk of major cardiac events, seizures or even death.
A new study found that high levels of the hormone insulin are toxic to human placenta cells, and the discovery may lead scientists to a better understanding of miscarriages and infertility.
While investigating possible causes of unexplained pregnancy loss, US researchers have discovered that insulin is toxic to first trimester placental cells.
In November 2018, a Rubicon was crossed in biomedical science. Researcher He Jiankui announced he had created the first “CRISPR babies” — infants whose genomes were edited before they were born.
When Mariela finally got pregnant in August 2017 after trying for three years, she knew exactly what she was going to name her little boy. “Aramis, from ‘The Three Musketeers.’ ”
Mary E. D’Alton, MD joined Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to announce the reintroduction of the Modernizing Obstetric Medicine Standards (MOMS) Act to reduce maternal mortality.
In November 2018, a research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics offered some encouraging news: Between 2002 and 2016, the use of alcohol and cigarettes during pregnancy has declined.
Zev Williams has heard all of the reasons couples might blame themselves for the devastating loss of a pregnancy: stress at work, a ski trip, lifting something heavy.