Researchers have identified several genes that are linked to one of the most lethal forms of uterine cancer, serous endometrial cancer. The researchers describe how three of the genes found in the study are freq...[read article]

Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are commonly associated with sexual assault, but a new study from The University of Texas at Austin shows that female victims suffer from a wide spectrum of debilita...[read article]

Women who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) have a significantly lower sexual quality of life finds a new study published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. FGM is defi...[read article]

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have discovered that a chemical can trigger the maturation of small eggs to healthy, mature eggs, a process that could give more women the chance of successful IVF tre...[read article]

New research offers hope to women whose fertility has been compromised by the side-effects of cancer therapy or by premature menopause. In a study published in Molecular Cell, researchers from the Walter and Eli...[read article]

Human papillomavirus (HPV) has long been implicated in cervical cancer, but details of how it happens have remained a mystery. Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that a single HPV ...[read article]

Women who want to conceive but cannot often find it an emotionally wrenching experience. Because scientists believe that women produce only a limited number of eggs before menopause, women face the predicament o...[read article]

WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan launched a broad assault on President Barack Obama in a speech to social conservatives on Friday, accusing him of pandering to extre...[read article]

One third of American women of childbearing age are battling obesity, a condition that affects their health and their chances of getting pregnant. Obese women often have poor reproductive outcomes, but the reaso...[read article]

One of the largest studies to look at the effect of induced abortions on a subsequent first birth has found that women who have had three or more abortions have a higher risk of some adverse birth outcomes, such...[read article]