Family Health Articles

Though healthy, fertile couples who have sex every day actually have a 37 percent chance of getting pregnant during any one cycle, an awful lot needs to go right for fertilization to occur.

Combined oral contraceptives also known simply as "the pill" are still among the most popular birth control methods in the world. If you are currently using the pill, but are planning to try to conceive in the near future, are there any special rules?

Figuring out when you are fertile and thus, when you should have intercourse could just be the single trickiest thing about trying to conceive.

Are you dealing with insomnia, or have you just been sleeping badly lately due to a lack of time, or perhaps stress? Everyone knows that a lack of sleep doesn't do your health any good.

You and your partner have been trying to conceive for a while now perhaps a few months, or perhaps closer to a year. You are still not pregnant and are desperate for answers.

Look at a typical preconception checklist, and you'll come across items like taking folic acid, eating a healthy diet and... losing weight. That's easy to say, but often not at all that easy to do.

How soon after having Implanon removed can you get pregnant? You may be surprised. Though Implanon is a long-term, highly effective birth control method, users generally ovulate very soon after having the device taken out.

When you were trying to get pregnant, you knew all about morning sickness and may have heard about early pregnancy fatigue, Braxton Hicks contractions and other inconvenient symptoms.

Female Athlete Triad Syndrome might be affecting your athletic teenage daughter. Find out more about this syndrome, warning signs, symptoms, and what you can do to ensure your daughter does not suffer long-term consequences from the triad.

Can human intelligence neatly be summed up by the modern IQ test, or is there more to the human brain that a battery of rigid academic tests devised by academics of above average but not genius intelligence?