Aiming to estimate survival from conception to birth more rigorously, in a 1990 paper geneticist Charles Boklage fitted theoretical curves to available data. Such estimates yield an essential baseline ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Babies conceived using in vitro fertilization are two to four times as likely to have certain birth defects than those conceived naturally, U.S. researchers said on Monday. In ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who conceive in the springtime may be more likely to deliver before 37 weeks gestation than women who conceive at other times of the year, two researchers from the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - A 46-year-old Orlando woman has become the oldest mother in the United States, and possibly in the world, to give birth to a healthy baby through in-vitro fertilization using her own ...

A proposal requiring K‑12 students to receive instruction on pre‑birth development drew debate Monday in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. House Bill 1313 would mandate that schools show ...

One of my abiding memories of the politics class at my high school was when we learnt about Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), the feminist and author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist ...