For those who want to be pregnant, tracking ovulation in the menstrual cycle to pin down that elusive “fertile window” can be ...

For a long time, scientists thought that human women had concealed ovulation and menstrual cycles — in other words, that nobody (aside from ourselves and the people we buy our tampons from) could tell ...

The process of human ovulation has long been shrouded in mystery. We know that once or twice a month, women release tiny eggs from their ovaries into their fallopian tubes, which usher eggs into the ...

A pregnancy test detects the presence of the pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG, in a person’s body. But the body doesn’t produce that hormone until several days after conception.

Ovulation is the point in a woman’s menstruation cycle when the egg is released from the follicle in the ovaries and begins making its way down the fallopian tube to become fertilized. Similar to the ...

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of its latest strategic plan, which will guide the agency from 2018 to 2022. Near the top of the document, the agency presents ...

It was good to read letter writer Ben White trying to address the key question that is too often bypassed in discussions about abortion. That is, when does life begin? It is key because we value human ...

What should be done with the thousands of embryos “stuck in a frozen limbo?” That’s the question posed by Michael O’Loughlin, a reporter for the Catholic publication Crux. In vitro fertilization is ...