For those who want to be pregnant, tracking ovulation in the menstrual cycle to pin down that elusive “fertile window” can be ...

The process of human ovulation has long been shrouded in mystery. We know that once or twice a month, women release tiny eggs from their ovaries into their fallopian tubes, which usher eggs into the ...

For a long time, scientists thought that human women had concealed ovulation and menstrual cycles — in other words, that nobody (aside from ourselves and the people we buy our tampons from) could tell ...

A pregnancy test detects the presence of the pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG, in a person’s body. But the body doesn’t produce that hormone until several days after conception.

Past research shows men find female faces more attractive at peak fertility. A new study shows an increased redness of women's face skin at the most fertile point of ovulatory cycle, but just under ...

How do physicians do it? Because human ovulation lacks external signs, it is admittedly difficult to estimate reliable birth dates. Physicians generally calculate the due date from the first day of a ...

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of its latest strategic plan, which will guide the agency from 2018 to 2022. Near the top of the document, the agency presents ...

What should be done with the thousands of embryos “stuck in a frozen limbo?” That’s the question posed by Michael O’Loughlin, a reporter for the Catholic publication Crux. In vitro fertilization is ...

Ovulation is the point in a woman’s menstruation cycle when the egg is released from the follicle in the ovaries and begins making its way down the fallopian tube to become fertilized. Similar to the ...

Until the 1930s physicians blithely told women that they conceived during menstruation and could avoid pregnancy by restricting coitus to other days. This, of course, conflicts directly with ...