Heat does not have to reach record-breaking levels to change what happens in the womb. Across millions of births in sub-Saharan Africa and India, days with high maximum temperatures during pregnancy ...

Research from Texas A&M shows that a father's health before conception significantly affects his child's lifelong health ...

Lead image: This artist’s conception depicts how the formation of the universe’s first stars may have appeared. Dense clouds of hydrogen and helium likely collapsed inward, increasing pressure and ...

Some research suggests that avoiding environmental exposures, especially pre-conception, may help. Influencers branded the idea “trimester zero,” but the science is in early stages.

A U.S. civil rights agency has determined that the federal government can bar transgender employees from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, dismissing an appeal from a transgender ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. civil rights agency has determined that the federal government can bar transgender employees from ...

Born with cancer, toddler Dorothy Pontillo suffered months of pain before an MRI found a massive tumor. Her parents’ persistence and help from a ...

In my many decades of writing, this is the first time that I’ve had to deal with a trap that I myself set, writes.

Six years later, as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Jackson said abortion should be legal and publicly funded through Medicaid. “I’m for freedom of choice,” he said. “Even ...

People whose sugar intake was restricted before birth and in early childhood had markedly lower rates of heart disease later in life. Compared to those never exposed to rationing, their risks of heart ...