Medically reviewed by Andrea L. Braden, MD Key Takeaways The female reproductive system includes organs that produce hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Ovaries release one mature egg each month ...

Japan’s Supreme Court struck down a law requiring transgender people to remove their reproductive organs in order to officially change their gender. On Wednesday, the top court’s 15-judge Grand Bench ...

One organ in a woman's body ages more than twice as fast as all other tissues, wreaking havoc with both fertility and long-term health. "Ovaries are very strange, very odd in terms of the rest of the ...

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women. It starts in the cervix and then spreads to the rest of the ...

Environmental services worker Elissa Marty pushes her cart of cleaning supplies to a Medical ICU unit at St. Mary's Hospital at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in Dec. 2020. New research from the ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialise to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and signals that drive this process. The findings offer important insights into ...

A pair of Florida Democrats have filed legislation that would in effect eliminate the state’s restrictive six-week abortion ...