Women’s Health

Bio bags, robotic preemies, artificial wombs, and the coming revolution in postnatal care to save babies born too soon.

What’s the protocol for creating a healthy new human when you subtract Earth from the equation?

Paradoxically, people who are lonely may have more active social brains.

Nicole Prause left academia to study sexuality without institutional limits. Now she’s challenging orthodox views of climax and pornography.

Newly discovered variants let women predict their fertility — and overall health.

This tech could boost fertility and fine-tune hormone levels.

Freezing ovarian tissue is classified as experimental. Maybe it shouldn’t be.

Research on aging treatments keeps turning up profound variations in how male and female subjects respond.

Women suffering from hot flashes try to find relief in a device that wasn’t designed specifically for them.

An engineer lights up tiny tumors that doctors can’t see.

Hackers take on everything that makes breastfeeding harder than it should be.

A wonder material goes to work inside the body.

A trailblazing genetic scan could bring the tools of precision medicine to a woefully understudied field.

Anorexia may originate in your gut and your DNA, not in fashion magazines. by Christina Farr