The female reproductive organs include several key structures, such as the ovaries, uterus, vagina, and vulva. These organs function in fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. The ...

releasing eggs, which can potentially be fertilized by sperm producing female sex hormones, such as progesterone and estrogen providing an environment for a fertilized egg to develop during pregnancy ...

And on Wednesday, actress Busy Philips, 36, was spotted on the famed Melrose Avenue. in Los Angeles, wearing a sweater with a diagram of a woman's ovaries. The actress was in high spirits for her day ...

Half of 26 to 35-year-olds were unable to correctly identify a vagina on a medical diagram of the female reproductive system, a new survey has found. In contrast, the majority of older women aged 66 ...

An unsung appendage in the female body, which has long been considered useless, may actually be essential for ovary development and fertility, a new mouse study finds. This structure, called the rete ...

Recently published work from Carnegie's Allan Spradling and Wanbao Niu revealed in unprecedented detail the genetic instructions immature egg cells go through step by step as they mature into ...

The ticking of the biological clock is especially loud in the ovaries — the organs that store and release a woman’s eggs. From age 25 to 40, a woman’s chance of conceiving each month decreases ...