Reproduction

A new book argues that disparities in fibroids, cancer and diagnosis reveal a lifelong gynecologic health crisis for Black women

The nation’s top court extended a stay on a lower court order banning telemedicine access to mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions—but the order sets up a longer legal fight

A multiyear effort to rename polycystic ovary syndrome finally revealed the condition’s new name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome

On May 11 the Supreme Court extended a pause on a ruling by a federal appeals court that prevented health care providers from prescribing mifepristone by telemedicine, setting the stage for further action from the nation’s highest court

A condition that affects 10 to 15 percent of women may affect men, too. But many doctors don’t know about it

Preeclampsia can be deadly in pregnancy, and aside from delivering the baby, the condition has no targeted treatment. A new study suggests blood filtering with antibodies could help

Scientists have learned how male octopuses’ specialized sperm-depositing arm knows where to go

A new study helps narrow down the reasons why Black people undergoing infertility treatment have fewer live births

Researchers put human sperm inside a uteruslike simulation under microgravity conditions. It did not go well

A company that makes surgical simulators released a tool to train clinicians to diagnose a deep form of endometriosis

These results are preliminary, but they could eventually improve ovarian health and fertility in women, researchers say

Without the gene Poc5, male mice produced no viable sperm, pointing to a possible link to infertility