I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have announced a study that found computed tomography, or CT scans, may account for as much as 5% of all cancers annually. This is comparative to the cancer risk from ...

Typically, a gel will be applied to the body to help the ultrasound waves transmit from the probe and into the body. Ultrasounds are commonly used during pregnancy to examine the uterus or fetus ...

She says she was told "'that's just how periods can be' and 'come back when you want to get pregnant'" when she tried to get help.

Three women explain why it’s a misunderstood, all-consuming disease—and why doctors, employers, and literally everyone else ...

Labor occurring before 37 weeks of gestation (as determined from the first day of the last menstrual period or by ultrasound estimation of fetal age) is called premature labor. Regular uterine ...

In this paper, the optical characteristics of an ultrasound gel lens were evaluated quantitatively by expanding the wavefront of the transmitted light in terms of the Zernike polynomial. It was ...