Informational Health Articles

Measles used to be a childhood disease everyone got it is usually unpleasant but mild, but measles can be fatal in some cases. Now that measles is a disease that...

Ask your obstetrician/gynecologist when you can have sex after giving birth, and you will most likely be told to wait until after your postpartum bleeding (lochia) stops. But, why are...

Until what age can women conceive naturally? As long as a woman still ovulates and menstruates that is, until she goes into the menopause she has a chance of getting...

Potty learning can be a long process that has as much to do with physiology as learning to walk, or any other physical milestone. Some children reach the milestone of...

Michelle Duggar, from the TLC reality show "19 kids and counting", had a miscarriage. According to a message on the Duggars' website, the family found out that their 20th baby...

A retained placenta after childbirth is just what you expect it to be a placenta that will not deliver after a baby has been born. A placenta can be retained...

With the holiday season rolling around again, lots of us are already planning Christmas dinners, family get-togethers and buying gifts for your children and those of friends and relatives. But...

A 20 year-old woman called Yaribely Almonte from New York State has been charged with self-abortion after her fetus was found in a trash container near her building. Law enforcement...

In people with Down syndrome there is usually an extra chromosome 21. However, this genetic condition can be a bit modified when not all cells contain the extra chromosome 21...

Are you about to try to conceive a second or subsequent baby through fertility treatments like IVF or IUI? There is no getting away from the fact that fertility treatments...