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 ...

Detecting early pregnancy loss In a pioneering prospective study published in 1980, conception was identified by detecting the pregnancy-specific hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in urine ...

In the first study of its kind, researchers investigated the impact of stories around conception and birth and how they affect the individuals involved and their familial relationships. Previous ...

Pregnancy spacing, or the amount of time in between giving birth and conception of your next child, is an important part of planning what your family will look like. How many kids you want and their ...

South America’s republics have the highest population growth rates in the world, far outstripping their economies’ ability to feed the multiplying mouths. Such pressure has built up in favor of birth ...

Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as a source of ...

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 ...

Understanding our earliest relationship experiences from the baby’s point of view and how these experiences set in motion life patterns have been the intense study of the field of prenatal and ...

"When a woman has given birth, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world" (John 16:21). Conception must occur before birth can happen. The powerful ...