A new study shows that personality can affect fertility and the health of your offspring.
Hunger pangs probably guide meat-eating animals, including humans, to choose certain body parts of their prey over others.
Women who worry about getting enough food are almost three times as likely to develop pregnancy-induced diabetes, researchers say.
Global death rates are decreasing for young children, particularly in some regions of Latin America, north Africa and the Middle East.
The stress of 9/11 may have increased the number of miscarriages among women carrying male babies.
A woman's touch can make you more likely to take risks, researchers say.
Taking care of your teeth and gums was never more important -- it could affect the health of your unborn baby.
With the invention of the birth control pill 50 years behind us, challenges still remain before men will have the option of taking a hormonal contraceptive.
Many young women today use "the pill" to treat acne, improve mood and, of course, prevent pregnancy.
Scientists disagree on how early fetuses may feel pain, although a new Nebraska law is based on the idea that they do have the sensation after 20 weeks.