A 236-million-year-old fossil indicates that a very ancient relative of mammals may already have given birth to live young.

Background: Many stillbirths show evidence of fetal growth restriction, and most occur at preterm gestational age. The objective of this study is to compare birth weights at preterm gestational ages ...

Exposure to air pollution can significantly reduce the odds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) leading to a live birth, a new study says. The odds of a live birth are nearly 40% lower in women heavily ...

Europe saw a 14-percent decrease in live births in January 2021, just nine to ten months after the first peak of the COVID-19 epidemic and the first lockdowns, compared to the average numbers of live ...

Models containing a national database of demographic and reproductive data predict the probability of a live birth success after in vitro fertilization (IVF). Using data containing demographic and ...

Beginning in 2016, the Baylor University Medical Center research uterus transplant protocol allowed 20 uterus transplants in consenting women, after which transplantation was offered clinically. As of ...

Endometriosis is linked to a reduction in fertility in the years preceding a definitive surgical diagnosis of the condition, according to new research published in Human Reproduction. In the first ...

An Argentine-German team of scientists, including Senckenberg's Krister Smith, has discovered the world's first fossil evidence of live birth in snakes. The fossil they examined came from the Hessian ...