Understand the signs of premature ovarian failure and POI. Learn how to manage symptoms and protect your long-term health.

Female mice receiving ovaries transplanted from much younger mice lived significantly longer than their counterparts without transplants, demonstrating for the first time that ovarian function plays a ...

Ovarian cancer is ranked among the top killers of women around the globe, especially in developing countries. Vigilance is a health necessity. Every woman of childbearing age needs regular checkups — ...

This series was created for Google, the Buck Institute, Optispan and Phenome Health by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Women live far longer ...

As access to medical care improves and more research is dedicated to women's health, we now have better awareness of ...

Women's decreased ability to produce healthy eggs as they become older may be due to excessive scarring and inflammation in their ovaries, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study in mice. This is ...

BOSTON — So-called “organs on a chip” — small blobs of tissue growing in lab dishes that mimic the function of their human counterparts — have promise for basic science and drug development. And those ...

Despite the fact that we all start out as an egg cell in one of our mother's ovaries, these human reproductive organs are surprisingly under-studied. Scientists have been working on creating in vitro ...

The growing burden of plastic pollution is not just an environmental concern; it has serious consequences for human fertility as well. Dr Divyaasha Walia, IVF specialist and senior consultant at ...