Medically reviewed by Andrea L. Braden, MD Key Takeaways The female reproductive system includes organs that produce hormones ...

Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at protecting access to infertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, amid growing concern that anti-abortion bills may threaten access ...

Score a victory for reproductive justice in the Illinois Appellate Court on Friday! Ruling that an unimplanted, fertilized egg is not a "human being" for purposes of a wrongful death action, the ...

In the beginning, no one really understood how babies were made. Thinkers puzzled for millennia about how life arose from one generation to the next. But not until the 17th century did scientists ...

It is nearly impossible to tell if an egg sitting on the counter is fertilized or not by eyeballing it. Some chicken farmers ...

The endometrium is the layer of tissue lining the inside of the uterus – the reproductive organ in the pelvis where a baby develops. "The endometrium is a crucial part of the female reproductive ...

Conception is an unbalanced equation: One egg plus one sperm equals a sum far more valuable than its parts. For years, University of Bath molecular embryologist Tony Perry has been trying to decode ...

Surgery centers and a heart hospital are among a host of health care facilities that have risen in burgeoning north-suburban Hamilton County in recent years. Now, a new fertility clinic could ...