Clinical trials are underway that demand us to rethink menopause—and whether or not women actually need to go through it.

For years, a mysterious tangle of tissue lurking beneath the ovary has been dismissed, absent from anatomy charts and medical ...

A small organ in the female body is now linked to fertility. Credit: Sara Neff / CC BY 2.0 A once-ignored organ of the female reproductive system may play a far greater role in fertility than ...

Their reproductive behaviors and mating ... The haremic social system centered around a protective silverback provides advantages for infant survival and female security, while female mate choice ...

An unsung appendage in the female body, which has long been considered useless ... one day help scientists better understand and treat conditions of the female reproductive system. "The endocrine ...

But in some cases, the baby’s genitalia might look completely male or completely female. In other words, they may have male anatomy on the outside but female anatomy on the inside or vice versa.

Due to a production error, several references added to the article during production were not cited in the correct positions, resulting in the subsequent positions of reference citations throughout ...

The vaginal opening is the part of the vagina visible outside the body. People commonly describe the vagina as the general area of the female reproductive system. However, the vagina specifically ...

The authors describe the morphology and development of the reproductive system, its changes upon degrowth and regeneration, and the animals' egg-laying behaviour. The evidence is convincing, with ...

It plays a role in the female reproductive ... Some people chart this information when trying to conceive. Others track this to try to avoid pregnancy. The cervix makes cervical mucus, but the fluid ...

I couldn’t figure out how, in all the centuries humans have been alive and studied ourselves, we could still know relatively little about the female reproductive system compared to other systems in ...

Lower abdominal pain in females can be caused by problems specific to the female reproductive system, such as menstrual cramps and ... Preterm labor, or premature birth, occurs when the body initiates ...