Just as external sex organs such as the labia and clitoris can look vastly different on different people, so can those that are internal. This is a “congenital anomaly that someone is born with,” ...

On an afternoon in November, a couple hosted a birthday party for their 1-year-old son. As family and friends gathered around the child to sing “Happy Birthday,” his parents addressed a milestone that ...

STOCKHOLM -- Swedish surgeons have successfully transplanted wombs donated from relatives into nine women and they will soon try to become pregnant, the doctor in charge of the pioneering project has ...

A recent study has found that Black women may be at a higher risk for uterine cancer because of harmful chemicals in some hair straightening products. These chemicals affect your body’s hormones.

When Chelsea Jovanovich was 15, she learned that she didn’t have a uterus. That was a result of her having Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) Syndrome, a rare congenital disorder that is estimated ...

Thanks to modern medicine, most types of cancer are on the decline today. However, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report shows that uterine cancer didn’t get the memo. “Uterine ...

Some women are born without a uterus due to rare genetic syndrome. — -- For some women with a rare condition that has left them with little hope of bearing children, news of the first ever uterus ...

The New York Times is following a team of doctors at the Cleveland Clinic as they attempt the first uterus transplant in the United States. If successful, the procedure will let women who’ve had a ...

In honor of some lesser-known marvels of the female body, we bring you a list of five strange capacities and capabilities of the feminine form.

Uterine fibroids, also known as leiomyomas, are the most common benign (noncancerous) tumors made of smooth muscle and connective tissue that develop in the myometrium layer of the uterus. They are ...

As organ donors, people consent to donating their vital organs after death, such as the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys, to save another person’s life. For female donors, the organ list may soon ...