Family Health Articles

Can digestive and bowel disorders lead to infertility? This is an area that still requires much research. There is a great possibility that may of these diseases can indeed affect a person's ability to conceive, however.

Periods are an inevitable part of the month for every women in her childbearing years, but one in five women experiences a monthly hell.

Marriage, as an institution, seems to be dying out. Millions of couples are happily living together and building a future together, and many are either trying to get pregnant or experience surprise pregnancies.

Female infertility can be placed into several different categories.

If you dread the annual pelvic exam, there may be some good news for you: current guidelines suggest that yearly trips to the OBGYN aren't medically necessary and that healthy women only need PAP smears once every three years.

IVF offers a wonderful opportunity to get pregnant for numerous families who could not conceive naturally, but is it really a safe fertility treatment?

Uterine fibroids, benign growths in the uterus, are very common in women of childbearing age. How can these fibroids affect pregnancy?

A woman's chances of getting pregnant are highest on her ovulation day, and this is why many women use tools to determine when they ovulate.

Intrauterine insemination (IUI) is often the first fertility treatment couples who cannot conceive naturally turn to. IUI is a fairly low-tech intervention washed sperm is inserted into the woman's uterus through a catheter.

The birth control pill has given an immense amount of freedom to an immense number of women. The pill enables you to plan when to have children, and how many. Unless it fails, of course. C