Robyn Jones felt unsettled over how normalized women’s suffering still remains, from IUD insertions to uterine biopsies.

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

Julene Darrell was born so premature in 2010 that every day she lived was a miracle. She arrived in the world at about 25 weeks’ old and weighed less than two pounds. She could not breathe on her own, ...

Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer. Effective screening can detect precancerous changes years before cancer develops. But more than 4,300 women will die from cervical ...

At 9 centimetres, the cervix is almost, but not fully, open. The small remaining edge, called the cervical rim, can slow progress even as contractions intensify. This fleeting stage challenges both ...

Losing your mucus plug is a sign that labor might start soon, but it could still be weeks away. The mucus plug looks like a thick clump of jelly and can be clear, pink, brown, or blood-tinged. Contact ...

Newly unveiled sperm microbots have the potential to improve reproductive health with magnetic controls and real-time X-ray tracking, according to a study. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Post-cerclage cervical length (CL) was a significant predictor of spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB; < 34 weeks of gestation) in women who underwent cervical cerclage, predominantly outperforming ...

Amanda Meyer is affiliated with the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists, the American Association for Anatomy, and the Global Neuroanatomy Network. Monika Zimanyi is ...

Mildly to moderately dilated ascending aorta showed a generally slow progression over 6 years in this general population–based study. A higher 7-day home measured systolic blood pressure (BP) was the ...