

More than half of U.S. children could be obese by age 35
The majority of children growing up in America today will be obese by age 35, a new computer analysis predicts. The study's lead author,...


Breathing Dirty Air May Raise Miscarriage Risk
Smog might raise a woman's risk of miscarriage early in her pregnancy, a new study suggests. Chronic exposure seemed to increase that...


Vitamin D Linked to Fertility Outcomes in IVF Treatment
Adequate levels of vitamin D were associated with better fertility outcomes in women undergoing assisted reproduction treatment (ART), a...


Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient's DNA
A man may soon be forever free of the previously incurable disease he was born with 44 years ago. On Monday, in a medical first, Brian...


Weighing Too Much or Too Little When Pregnant Can Be Risky
For women contemplating having a baby, new research adds to the evidence suggesting that starting a pregnancy at a normal weight is best....


Waiting to conceive after miscarriage may not be needed
One miscarriage doesn’t necessarily increase the risk of another, and counseling women to delay conception after a pregnancy loss may not...


US fertility rate hits a record low
The US fertility rate has dropped to the lowest number reported since fertility records started being kept more than a century ago. There...


Male Infertility Crisis in U.S. Has Experts Baffled
Hagai Levine doesn’t scare easily. The Hebrew University public health researcher is the former chief epidemiologist for the Israel...