In Utero

Judges determined that the U.K. Equality Act can allow for the exclusion of trans women from some single-sex spaces.

The decade's old public health intervention has been a big boost in the fight against tooth decay.

Imagine a world without Oreos, Coke, Pepsi, Cool Whip, Honey Bunches of Oats, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Hebrew National, Yoplait, and Cheerios. If six plaintiffs law firms have their way, that is precisely where we are going.

Sugar restriction during pregnancy and in early childhood delayed the onset of type 2 diabetes and hypertension by about 4 and 2 years, respectively, found a natural experiment in sugar rationing.

Evidence suggested there is little risk in administering the live rotavirus vaccine to the babies of mothers on biologics during pregnancy for inflammatory bowel disease.

The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed after the state's ban on abortion care, a new analysis finds.

An excreted satellite tag helped scientists document the large fish being preyed upon for the first time.

By understanding heat's intimate effects on the mind, we can better grasp the human dimensions of climate change.

New UK guidelines restricting valproate for people under 55 owing to safety risks. The question arises: Should the US follow suit?

The number of babies born with severe birth defects connected with fentanyl use during pregnancy is rising. Scientists now have strong evidence linking the drug to abnormalities in newborns.

Human's evolutionary remnants show us the kinds of animals we used to be

Maya Jasanoff reviews "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins," by Stefanos Geroulanos.

So far in 2024, there have been at least 25 reported congenital syphilis cases in Colorado, including five stillbirths and two neonatal deaths.

Several marsupial species, including sugar gliders, independently evolved a way to make membranes that allow them to glide through the air

Tennessee would become the latest state to require public school students to watch a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group, or something comparable, under legislation heading to Republican Gov. Bill Lee's desk

On February 16, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos destroyed at an IVF facility were children subject to the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, opening the door to civil and criminal liability. The state's largest fertilization centers immediately "froze" their services. Two weeks later, now aware of the implications of this ruling, the Alabama legislature undid (some of) the court's damage, providing…

Alabama is the latest state to throw reproductive rights, including the practice of in vitro fertilization, into a vortex of legislative whiplash and partisan drumbeating.

To those who have watched how certain elements of the anti-abortion campaign have gone from fringe to mainstream, the Alabama IVF decision is both validation and a warning of more shifts to come.

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found.