The female reproductive organs include several key structures, such as the ovaries, uterus, vagina, and vulva. These organs function in fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. The ...

During mammalian reproduction, millions of sperm undertake a journey that only one will finish. This journey to fertilization has been commonly viewed as a race: a sea of sperm competing to get to the ...

Understanding the changes that will take place are critical. We're taught the basics about the female body in sex ed. But after milestones for women like getting your period and giving birth, many ...

The female reproductive system has a lot going on. Bleeding or not, if you have a uterus, you’re subject to reaping all the pros, and experiencing all the cons, of a period. Unfortunately, that might ...

But science is beginning to learn that various chemicals in the female reproductive system can facilitate – or sabotage – that sperm’s chance for victory. And it appears to happen at an early stage in ...

This week, during a new episode of her podcast, Michelle Obama put forward a perspective on the female reproductive system that can only be described as odd. “The least” of what the female ...