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Give to UCSFPeople trying to conceive are bombarded with advice meant to improve their odds. But how much power do we really have over our fertility?
Trillions of invisible organisms make up the human microbiome. Now, medical scientists want to put these bugs to work.
Diana Greene Foster of UCSF was named one of the top 10 most influential scientists of 2022 by "Nature" for her study of what happens to women who are denied abortions.
Stress during pregnancy can impact children’s cell aging, and race is an important factor.
A low-cost, prenatal intervention benefits mothers’ mental health up to eight years later, a new UCSF study finds.
A third of American women of reproductive age now face excessive travel times to obtain an abortion, according to a new geospatial analysis by researchers in San Francisco and Boston that is one of the first to model the effects of the Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs v. Jackson decision.
Pregnant women in the U.S. are being exposed to chemicals like melamine, cyanuric acid, and aromatic amines that can increase the risk of cancer and harm child development, according to a study from researchers at UCSF and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood and faculty joined U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative Jackie Speier for a roundtable on women’s health and the state of abortion care in the nation.
The repercussions of overturning Roe v. Wade – and the failure of the Supreme Court to provide any guidance on exceptions related to the life and health of the mother – are potentially catastrophic for women who face a life-threating diagnosis of pregnancy associated cancers (PAC).
Severe restrictions and bans on abortion access may have life-changing and even life-threatening consequences in as many as 28 states for women of childbearing age with conditions like migraine, multiple sclerosis (MS) and epilepsy.
A groundbreaking UCSF study reveals the long-term adverse effects of unwanted pregnancy on people’s lives, pointing to widespread challenges that will result from the US Supreme Court ruling to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
What happens once abortion is illegal in half the country?
A significant proportion of bacterial sexually transmitted infections – gonorrhea, chlamydia, or syphilis – were prevented with a dose of doxycycline after unprotected sex, according to preliminary results of a clinical trial.