CDC: Overall Fertility Rate Down 10% Among U.S. Women
Overall fertility rates and reproductive rates have fallen among U.S. women from 1990 to 2014, despite a 10-year spike from the mid-1990s...
Stress hormone may help explain health advantages of marriage
Married couples may be healthier than single, divorced or widowed adults at least in part because they have lower levels of a stress...
Obese Couples Take Longer to Conceive, Study Finds
Couples who are both obese may have a harder time conceiving a child than couples who are both at a healthy weight, researchers reported...
When it comes to school, harsh parenting can backfire
Most of us modern parents worry at some point (maybe daily!) whether we are parenting our kids the right way. At a time when we see...
Could we one day make babies from only skin cells?
In the not-so-distant future, research suggests, eggs and sperm may no longer be needed to make a baby -- at least not in the traditional...
Children born via ART develop normally as those born naturally, new study
Children born through assisted reproductive technologies have similar cognitive, motor and language development at age two as those born...
Prevent Peanut Allergies: Give Kids Peanuts
Infants as young as 4 months old should be introduced to peanut-containing foods to prevent the development of peanut allergies,...
Chinese scientists use gene-editing techniques in humans for first time
Chinese scientists have become the first in the world to use the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique in humans. On October...
