The risk of young women getting melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, increased over the last 25 years and researchers blame it on the growing trend of tanning.

A team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health looked at data from women aged 15 to 39 from a network of cancer registries across the U.S. in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program from 1973 to 2004

Brazil's lower house of Congress voted Wednesday to keep abortion a crime, disappointing groups that wanted to legalize the procedure in the country with the world's largest Catholic population. The representatives in the congressional commission on the constitution and justice voted 30-4 against lifting the penal prohibition on abortion.

The center-left government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had backed moves to legalize the practice that is estimated to be carried out 3 million times a year. The pro-abortion group wants to make the issue a question of public health

Diabetes and obesity can affect male fertility in a negative way, new research has found. The findings, presented Wednesday at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference here, could mean that men need to keep tabs on their weight when planning a family.

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen found that men of average weight have healthier sperm in higher volumes than those outside the normal range. The research follows reports made by doctors earlier this week that male fertility begins to decline when men reach their mid-30s

Pregnant women are more likely to suffer from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or heart attacks, according to a new study.

Researchers believe that a large number of women who delay having children potentially increase the chances of having a heart attack. This condition is not considered common but it puts them at risk of heart attack three to four fold

A new study shows that a man's fertility starts to fall in his mid 30s and it could also be considered a factor in determining the reason for failed conception in couples who are trying to conceive.

Researchers from Paris studied more than 12,000 couples undergoing fertility treatments and the results revealed that pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the father is older than 40. The findings are being presented Monday at the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona, Spain