Celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Chrissy Teigen have both praised their experiences with surrogates - who carry children for people with fertility issues and same-sex couples - as a “gift.” Actress ...

(Reuters Health) – Up to 17 percent of young adults in the U.S. may be using “withdrawal” to prevent pregnancy, although not necessarily relying just on that method, a new study finds. In the sample ...

Many people who are trying to get pregnant use period-tracking apps to figure out when they're most fertile. But does it work the other way around? Can your period tracker act as birth control? For ...

There are more than a dozen medically approved methods of birth control, including condoms, the pill and implants. Now for the first time, a cell phone app has been certified as a method of birth ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 44, No. 3 (Dec., 1982), pp. 330-342 (13 pages) The objective of this study is to test the applicability and efficiency of a new ...

Taking care of simulator baby dolls has long been thought to dissuade young women from pregnancy, but according to a new study, caring for the dolls actually results in more teenage girls getting ...

Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, leaving states to decide whether or not to allow abortion within their borders, it's understandable that some people have been thinking about their birth ...

One woman shares her story of undergoing tubal ligation, one of the permanent methods of birth control, only to discover months later that she was pregnant again with her fourth child. It was the last ...

Researchers have developed a way to use ultrasound to predict whether a pregnant person is at risk of delivering a baby prematurely, which occurs in upward of 10% of pregnancies in the U.S. The new ...

Objective To synthesise the existing literature relating to barriers and enablers encountered by elite athletes during preconception and pregnancy for the purpose of identifying key recommendations ...