Pregnant women whose waters break late in preterm pregnancy but before they are in labor - the medical term for this situation is preterm prelabor rupture of the membranes - are best managed by monitoring and wa...[read article]

Coronary artery disease continues to be a major cause of death in the U.S., killing hundredsof thousands of people per year. However, this disease burden isn't evenly divided between the sexes....[read article]

TEP is a condition where the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tubes instead of in the uterus. In pregnant women, cilia (small protuberances) pulsate, or beat, to propel an embryo through the fallopian tu...[read article]

Researchers claim that children might suffer from high functioning autism if their mothers resorted to smoking during pregnancy. Professor Amy Kalkbrenner, the lead author from the University of Wisconsin-Milwau...[read article]

A new study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing has revealed that more than 96 percent of women who visit preconception clinic prior to IVF treatment had at least three major lifestyle problems and risk...[read article]

The proportion of insured girls and young women completing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among those who initiated the series has dropped significantly - as much as 63 percent - since the vaccine was ap...[read article]

A University of Illinois study shows that human milk oligosaccharides, or HMO, produce short-chain fatty acids that feed a beneficial microbial population in the infant gut. Not only that, the bacterial composit...[read article]

An increasing number of highly educated women are opting for families, according to a national study co-authored by a University at Buffalo economist, he study uncovers what may be the reversal of a trend by hig...[read article]

A new study conducted by researchers from Boston University has found that sarcoidosis accounts for 25 percent of all deaths among women in the Black Women's Health Study who have the disease. ...[read article]

Certain chemicals that are widely used in sunscreens and other products because they protect against UV light are associated with an increased risk of developing the gynecological condition endometriosis, a new ...[read article]