The final menstrual period is preceded by abrupt "cliff-like" biological changes across multiple body systems, some of which show early signs more than a decade beforehand, according to research ...

Women have immune systems that have long been found to fight infections more aggressively than men’s, which helps protect ...

A mixed-methods study in southern Chad finds that while nearly all residents know about urinary schistosomiasis, only about 3 ...

A new study in PLOS Pathogens shows that Trypanosoma brucei invades the uterine lining, remodels the reproductive immune ...

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