Powerful groups of mostly men are making major decisions about biology and bodies they know little about. Embryos in deep freeze that may never be used are just the latest example. As a professor of ...

Contraceptives are vital for reproductive health, empowering women to prevent unintended pregnancies with potential threats to their well-being. Access to contraceptives, despite their well-documented ...

A new study focuses on the role of the clitoris in females, showing that when it is stimulated, it triggers a wave of changes within the rest of the reproductive tract. The outcome of these changes ...

The female reproductive system includes organs that produce hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Ovaries release one mature egg each month during ovulation. Fallopian tubes transport the egg from ...

Over the years, women working in healthcare have been asked why “women’s health” solutions are not just “health solutions.” We’ve been asked if we really need to build separate care paths for women.

The following outlines aspects of the female reproductive system, including the internal and external organs, the menstrual cycle, the egg, and reproductive hormones. The menstrual cycle is a monthly ...

During mammalian reproduction, millions of sperm undertake a journey that only one will finish. This journey to fertilization has been commonly viewed as a race: a sea of sperm competing to get to the ...

releasing eggs, which can potentially be fertilized by sperm producing female sex hormones, such as progesterone and estrogen providing an environment for a fertilized egg to develop during pregnancy ...