Females experiencing fertility challenges may have a range of symptoms stemming from the underlying cause. Several common symptoms include irregular menstrual cycles, painful menstrual cramps, or pain ...

When does a woman's fertility begin to decline? The answer, experts say, is a cruel irony: "When women are biologically most ready and able to have a baby, most women are not ready, emotionally, ...

In 2016, two Japanese reproductive biologists, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Mitinori Saitou, made an announcement in the journal Nature that read like a science-fiction novel. The researchers had taken skin ...

Conception is often imagined as a moment, but in reality, it is the outcome of months and sometimes years of biological ...

Many couples these days are struggling with infertility, that is the inability to conceive a child, or recurrent miscarriages ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A recent study from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers suggests that mothers who reported being stressed prior to conception were at risk of ...

For decades, the uterus was believed to be a sterile environment, but recent research has upended this idea, revealing a diverse microbiome that may influence fertility and reproductive health. A new ...

Considering egg freezing? Experts explain why both egg quality and egg quantity matter when preserving fertility for the ...

In a recent study published in the journal Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, researchers investigated the impacts of multiple metal exposure on female fertility. They used a nested case-control ...