Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. A reader revives the thread of women telling personal stories of how ...

An ectopic pregnancy happens when a fertilized egg implants somewhere other than inside the uterus. The egg is supposed to travel down the fallopian tube and embed itself into the uterine wall where ...

Ovarian cancer typically begins in the ovaries or fallopian tubes. Doctors may refer to cancer that begins in the fallopian tubes as fallopian cancer. Can ovarian cancer begin in the fallopian tubes?

Ovarian cancer has long been one of the deadliest cancers to strike women. No tests are available to detect it early, so most patients are diagnosed in later stages, when the cancer is more likely to ...

A new study suggests that ovarian cancer cells form by hijacking a developmental genetic process normally used to form fallopian tubes. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the ...

A 35-year-old French tourist underwent emergency surgery in Vietnam for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy recently, nearly a month after doctors in France twice misdiagnosed her condition as a miscarriage.

A new consensus statement from the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA) suggests some women should remove fallopian tubes in order to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer screenings ...