18+ hour, 8+ min ago  (187+ words) Human infertility is a significant health and social problem. It affects approximately 17. 5% of the world's population, and almost half of all the cases are linked to male factors. Currently, male fertility is assessed by means of a semen analysis, in…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (395+ words) A pilot study from Karolinska Institutet shows that immunotherapy may enable stimulation of egg maturation in women with autoimmune POI (premature ovarian insufficiency) " a condition that usually leads to infertility. Three out of ten women gave birth to healthy babies…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (462+ words) For many people with asthma, air-quality advisories are harbingers of worsening symptoms. But for reasons science has struggled to explain, the extent to which pollution exacerbates asthma varies widely from person to person. The team focused on how these genes…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (796+ words) First-time mothers whose children go through family court care proceedings in England are 21 times more likely to die within 10 years of having their baby compared with other mothers, a new study by UCL researchers finds. The research, published in the…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (700+ words) Pregnant women with a severe form of nausea face increased risks for several pregnancy and birth complications, according to a new Stanford Medicine study of 2. 5 million California births. The research was published June 16 in the American Journal of Epidemiology. It…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (554+ words) Bending forwards, and to a lesser extent, walking a lot at work in early pregnancy, may raise the risk of miscarriage, finds a large study of more than 470, 000 Danish women, published online in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Each additional…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (798+ words) A real-world US study finds maternal RSVpre F vaccination may help shield newborns from severe RSV illness during their most vulnerable first months of life. Study: Maternal Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prefusion F Vaccination and Acute Respiratory Illness in Infants. Image…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (610+ words) Exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in many weed killers, was linked to changes in several hormones that support pregnancy and fetal development-in one of the few studies to examine how a widely used herbicide may affect the body during…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (221+ words) The study analysed stool and amniotic fluid samples from 60 pregnant women. Researchers investigated how maternal factors during pregnancy affect small particles produced by the body's microbiota, known as extracellular vesicles. These are signaling particles released by bacteria that enable microbes…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (160+ words) Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that interfere with hormones were found in breast milk and in the urine of children from birth up to 6 months, according to a study being presented Saturday at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Chicago, Ill. Breast…...