Scientists have established a genetic mouse model for primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), a human condition in which women experience irregular menstrual cycles and reduced fertility, and early exposure to estr...[read article]

CHICAGO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials are urging doctors to stop using a key antibiotic to treat routine cases of gonorrhea due to signs of bacterial resistance, leaving onetreatment left for the sexu...[read article]

The menopause evolved, in part, to prevent competition between a mother and her new daughter-in-law, according to research published in the journal Ecology Letters. The study - by researchers from the University...[read article]

One of the largest studies to look at the effect of induced abortions on a subsequent first birth has found that women who have had three or more abortions have a higher risk of delivering babies with prematuret...[read article]

Now, a novel study led by Catherine Racowsky, PhD, director of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and performed by Ronit Machtinger, M.D., of BWH....[read article]

WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan launched a broad assault on President Barack Obama in a speech to social conservatives on Friday, accusing him of pandering to extre...[read article]

Women who want to conceive but cannot often find it an emotionally wrenching experience. Because scientists believe that women produce only a limited number of eggs before menopause, women face the predicament o...[read article]

Human papillomavirus (HPV) has long been implicated in cervical cancer. Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that a single HPV protein is required for cervical cancer and even pre-ca...[read article]

New research offers hope to women whose fertility has been compromised by the side-effects of cancer therapy or by premature menopause. In a study published in Molecular Cell, researchers from the Walter and Eli...[read article]

Women who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) have a significantly lower sexual quality of life finds a new study published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. ...[read article]