Family Health Articles

Infertility is on the rise approximately 15 percent of all couples now struggles to get pregnant. Statistics show that male infertility is partly responsible for 50 percent of those cases...

Being pregnant and being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease adds a whole new dimension to your usual prenatal worries. If you have genital warts, you have to decide how...

Have you ever read about concerns that children born with the help of IVF have a higher chance of suffering from autism (see autism rates and IVF), or birth defects...

The sciatic nerve is the largest one in the body - it enables your legs to move and to feel, so it is quite an essential nerve! It passes under...

Preeclampsia is a prenatal condition that can be dangerous for both mother and baby, and a diagnosis of preeclampsia signals that a mother might go onto to develop eclampsia, during...

Have you been trying to conceive for a while, with no success? Are people constantly telling you to relax and it will happen when you least expect it? Is your...

Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States and many other developed countries. Three million Americans are infected with Chlamydia each year. Many women do not...

Teenage pregnancy is always a lovely subject for those who enjoy a little controversy. In the United Kingdom, if one government agency gets its way, schools could soon be organizing...

When you first found out that you were pregnant, I bet all kinds of questions crossed your mind. Questions like, when is my due date? Will my baby be a...

Edema is the accumulation of fluid in places where it does not normally accumulate. It's also referred to simply as "fluid retention", which is exactly what it is. Edema is...