Women with the BRCA gene mutations have a 60 to 80 percent chance of developing /topics/Breast_Cancer" class="cnnInlineTopic">breast cancer-- at least five times higher than the general population -- ...

Ovarian cancer kills an estimated 12,700 women annually, with around 20,000 women getting a diagnosis each year.

Women’s health is understudied and, in many respects, poorly understood. Even the term “women’s health” is often used as a ...

Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the color of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even ...

A new draft NICE guideline had proposed new age thresholds to guide GP referral for ovarian cancer investigation, to improve ...

Ferrets are beloved, curious creatures whose popularity as a family pet has steadily increased over the past decades. However ...

With a new imaging technique, scientists discover an ecosystem that determines how eggs mature and ovaries age. The ticking of the biological clock is especially loud in the ovaries — the organs that ...

(CNN) — Marijuana may damage oocytes — unfertilized eggs in female ovaries — in ways researchers worry may lead to infertility, miscarriage and possible genetic defects in babies, new research has ...

The authors describe a rare case of small-bowel obstruction caused by an internal hernia through a right ovarian cyst in a 52-year-old woman. Pre-operative CT suggested obstruction with a co-existing ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – September is recognized as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. The disease affects the female ovaries, which are the reproductive organs that produce eggs. The cancer occurs when ...

Recent advancements in tissue clearing and three-dimensional (3D) visualization technologies have enabled subcellular-level examination of entire organs, particularly in complex structures such as the ...