The World Health Organization has declared a “public health emergency of international concern” related to the clusters of microcephaly and other neur...
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has launched a new due date calculator application that officials hope will replace the physic...
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have added the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic to the rapidly growing list ...
A double-blind trial of more than 300 women found that Chinese medicine acupuncture was no better than a sham treatment with blunt needles for the rel...
The FDA is requiring manufacturers to submit a premarket approval application for surgical mesh for transvaginal repair of pelvic organ prolapse. The ...
In a study of 60 women at high risk for ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, use of the hormone kisspeptin to mature and harvest eggs resulted in no cas...
Since both infant and mother will need advanced care after delivery, ACOG and SMFM recommend that deliveries during the periviable period occur at cen...
Researchers will consider dense breast tissue as a possible intermediate risk factor for breast cancer with the goal of identifying links between envi...
A Q&A with Dr. Catherine Y. Spong, deputy director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which is le...
The controversy surrounding the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s practice of collecting fetal tissue from abortions for medical research con...
In a national coverage decision issued July 9, Medicare officials announced that the “evidence is sufficient” to add HPV testing once every 5 years as...
