Pregnant teachers don’t have access to as much paid leave as other pregnant workers. An LAUSD effort aims to change that.

A hospital is using a breathing tube and other measures to keep a brain-dead Georgia woman's body functioning because she is ...

Just days after Lydia Dutcher gave birth to her son Theo, she learned she had a tumor in her placenta and was diagnosed with ...

Nearly all newborns who contract human papillomavirus in the perinatal stage will eliminate the virus in the first six months ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which ...

Researchers have revealed insight into why embryos erase a key epigenetic mark during early development, suggesting this may have evolved to help form a placenta.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four ...