A female SpaceX employee accused the company of gender discrimination and retaliation in a new lawsuit. The suit alleges the employee’s former supervisor pressured her into a quid-pro-quo relationship. The employee said in the suit that SpaceX continued to side with her male boss even after he left. A female SpaceX employee accused the rocket […]
Scientists have created miniorgans from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb – an advance they believe could open up new areas of prenatal medicine. Miniorgans, or “ organoids,” are tiny simplified structures that can be used to test new medical treatments or study how the real organs they mimic […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Lawmakers in Kentucky advanced a bill Tuesday that would grant the right to collect child support for unborn children, reflecting a broader effort in some Republican-led states to push legislation conferring a fetus with the same rights as a person. The measure would allow a parent to seek child support up […]
A world first in rhinoceros reproductive health could save northern white rhinos from extinction, scientists said Wednesday. The team at the BioRescue project successfully impregnated a southern white rhino via in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to a press release, creating a possible path for restoring the northern white rhino species. Northern white rhinos are critically endangered and the only two remaining rhinos, Najin and Fatu, are infertile […]
There are just two northern white rhinos left in the entire world – and they’re both female. But now, their species has a chance at survival, as researchers have for the first time achieved an IVF rhino pregnancy. BioRescue Project, a reproduction technology nonprofit focused on saving threatened species, announced on Wednesday that the company […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Assembly quietly introduced a bill Friday that would call for a binding statewide referendum on whether abortion should be banned after 14 weeks of pregnancy. The GOP has scheduled a public hearing on the bill for Monday afternoon at the state Capitol. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers […]
Delaying pregnancy and a large information gap around conception is having an impact on the fertility of younger people, a new study shows. One of the research’s notable finding is that a large cohort of younger people, namely students, are not aware they should seek medical help if they have trouble conceiving for more than […]
The state of Minnesota reached a settlement Wednesday with a Blaine pet store that fired a new employee shortly after learning she was pregnant. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights said Pet Ranch, which operates the Four Paws and a Tail pet shop in the Northtown Mall in Blaine, violated a state civil rights law […]
AZUA, Dominican Republic (AP) — It was a busy Saturday morning at Marcia González’s church. A bishop was visiting, and normally she would have been there helping with logistics, but on this day she was teaching sex education at a local school. “I coordinate activities at the church and my husband is a deacon,” González […]
Unprotected sex on New Year’s Eve may be driving a spike in sales of emergency contraception after the holiday, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study, researchers looked at marketing data on weekly aggregated sales of emergency contraception between 2016 and 2022 and found that sales significantly increase […]
Unprotected sex on New Year’s Eve may be driving a spike in sales of emergency contraception after the holiday, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study, researchers looked at marketing data on weekly aggregated sales of emergency contraception between 2016 and 2022 and found that sales significantly increase […]
Liz Rose Short is no stranger to planning creative pregnancy reveals for her husband, Codie. After all, she had done it twice before: for the birth of their oldest, Liz planned a scavenger hunt, and for their soon-to-be middle child, she put the news on an adorable onesie. Both announcements went off without a hitch. […]