Blood clots can originate from almost any part of the body. They will travel through the blood stream until they become lodged in an artery

Fears are growing that the most lethal form of the Ebola virus can mutate into an airborne pathogen, making the spread of the terrifying disease more difficult to check.

Brace yourselves: Flu season is coming! And with the coughing, fevers and aches come all the alarmist articles and blog posts on unreliable, misinformative websites questioning the flu vaccine’s safety and effectiveness.

Dust allergies can cause sneezing, a stuffy or runny nose, or itchy and red eyes. Learn more about the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment here.

Zika is spread mostly by mosquitoes, and can also pass through sex and from a pregnant woman to her fetus. Learn what you can do to stop the spread of Zika.

Associated terms for pregnancy are gravid and parous.Gravidus and gravid come from the Latin for “heavy” and a pregnant female is sometimes referred to as a gravida. Gravidity is a term used to describe the number of times that a female has been pregnant.

Another change you’ll find is that the “myths” are now concerns, phrased as questions. What’s up with that? I made that change for a couple reasons.

UCSF was one of the first designated National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health. Our scientists and clinicians have long been leaders in reproductive health and fertility, gynecological conditions, cancer and more.

“A Defense of Abortion” is a moral philosophy paper by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the fetus’s right to life does not trump the pregnant woman’s right to control her own body and its life-support functions, and

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