Fertility

Study shows correlation between mothers' self-reported pregnancy-related anxiety, and babies' blood flow to brain areas responsible for emotional responses when listening to sad speechCredit: Photo: University of Turku & Aalto…

AUSTRALIA, Sydney - November 12, 2019 - A new study published today in Journal of Obstetrics Gynaecology Canada has found one in eight Australian women with endometriosis use cannabis to alleviate pain and other symptoms, rating the plant…

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 7, 2019) - Dr. Lawrence C. Layman, chief of the Section of Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility and Genetics in the Department of Obstetrics and…

Many young women face high risk of unintended pregnancy due to high cost of contraceptive methods Young, low-income women in Canada are less likely to use more effective methods of birth control like the pill, and more likely to use no…

UNC School of Medicine researchers are the first to show in animal models that components of marijuana, including its cannabinoids THC and CBD, can cause brain and facial birth defects if used during the first trimester of pregnancy.Credit:…

Analysis in new March of Dimes Report Card shows impact of preterm birth In the United States, 1 in 10 babies is born preterm, or at a gestational age of less than 37 weeks. The causes of preterm birth are complicated but the effects are…

Healthy women have more than twice the chance of a normal labour and birth in a planned birth centre birth compared to a planned hospital birth, a major Australian study has found. Healthy women have more than twice the chance of a normal…

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 29, 2019--New research suggests that women's feminine hygiene practices - in particular vaginal douching and use of feminine powder - may be associated with higher…

Credit: UNC Press In the 1970s, doctors in the United States sterilized an estimated 25 to 42 percent of Native American women of childbearing age, some as young as 15. Even the lower estimate--one quarter of Native women--is a…

CRCHUM researchers pave the way to successful pregnancies Montreal, October 23, 2019 -- Struggling with infertility? You are not alone. Infertility affects one out of every six Canadian couples. Some resort to in vitro fertilization, with…