Some states have banned most abortions after six weeks. Experts explain how that can often be before a woman knows she is pregnant. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta By the time a woman is considered six ...

A study of horses -- which share many important similarities with humans in their chromosomes and pregnancies -- revealed that 42% of miscarriages and spontaneous abortions in the first two months of ...

Using human stem cells, scientists have created human embryo-like structures inside petri dishes. These lab-grown blobs develop multiple structures that mimic a human embryo after implantation into ...

Your pregnancy countdown can get jumbled pretty quickly. Are you 13 weeks pregnant or 14? First trimester or second? Three months pregnant or four? Then there’s figuring out your due date — which, for ...

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining ...

In the journal JAMA Network Open, ECHO Cohort Consortium researchers reported a negative association between weekly prenatal ...

I always knew there were gaps in the U.S. maternal healthcare system, particularly for people of color, but I didn’t fully understand the depth of the issue until I lived it myself. After giving birth ...

(Toluca) – The vote by the Congress of the State of Mexico on November 25, 2024, to decriminalize abortion in all cases during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy is a significant step forward for ...