A support group for mothers is a model for practical, inexpensive steps to ease women’s transition to motherhood—and hopefully retain them in science.

In long-distance, physically taxing events, the amount of energy athletes can expend appears to peak at about 2.5 times their metabolic resting rate—a maximum likely dictated by how many calories they can digest.

The second phase of the Human Microbiome Project reports on microbial composition in prediabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and pregnancy.

Black women and Native American women die roughly three times more often than white women, and 60 percent of all maternal deaths may be preventable.

Two studies, taken together, imply that sequencing can identify a genetic cause for ultrasound abnormalities in roughly 10 percent of cases.

Such differences may help explain accidental pregnancies among women on the pill, researchers say.

Animal and cell culture studies show evidence that dengue antibodies can both neutralize and enhance Zika, but human investigations have only found protective effects.

Countries with populations whose average adult height grew late last century are more likely to have high rates of babies delivered surgically.

Rodent and human studies have revealed a multitude of effects starting during gestation and lasting into adulthood.