Family Health Articles

Labor contractions are a sure sign you're going to meet your baby soon, but let's face it — giving birth is also a little scary. Knowledge tends to ease fear, so how much do you know about labor and birth?

Now the school year has started, parents also have many more responsibilities. Do you find yourself stressing over your child's lunch? We have some ideas for you.

The teen birth rate has reached a historic low in the US, a new report shows. Meanwhile, the overall birth rate is evening out and around four million babies were born last year.

Miscarriage — spontaneous pregnancy loss before 20 weeks — is a common occurrence. Are you familiar with the symptoms and types of miscarriage, and would you know what to do in the aftermath?

More than twice as many American teenagers used electronic cigarettes in 2012 compared to the previous year. Public health experts worry that millions of teens may become addicted to nicotine.

Is your child not ready to say goodbye to the school holidays yet? These tips show how parents can help their kids adjust to the new school year.

Both women and men have strong physiological responses to sexual intercourse during the morning that they don't have at other times of day. Here's why morning sex is becoming the new wake-up for millions of couples.

August 26 marks Women's Equality Day. We got the right to vote nearly a century ago, but there is still more to be done — a look at women's health issues makes this very clear.

Despite public health recommendations and efforts, and goals set by health organizations to increase and promote initiation and duration rates of breastfeeding, in the United States especially, there still exist major disparities.

Gonorrhea used to be perhaps the most easily treatable of all the sexually transmitted infections, a single shot of penicillin usually enough to stop it almost as soon as it started. Now gonorrhea has to be treated with a combination of antibiotics.