The Victorian Supreme Court recently dismissed a class action on behalf of more than 1,400 women who received Bayer’s Essure contraceptive device. The decision attracted significant publicity ...

An implantable, non-hormonal male contraceptive has been shown in trials to last for at least two years. The contraceptive, known as Adam, is a water-soluble hydrogel that is implanted in the sperm ...

Apr. 3, 2025 — While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy ...

Researchers from the University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Caltech have developed a microscopy technique based on ultrasound to reveal capillaries and cell ...

In a class action loss against Bayer for harms caused by its Essure contraceptive device, some saw familiar failures of medicine and the law when it comes to female bodies ...

Your 12-week ultrasound is meant to assess your baby's development at the end of the first trimester of your pregnancy. At week 12, the fetus's organs and body systems are formed, and you may actually ...

For women who do not breastfeed exclusively, the return of menstruation and ovulation is unpredictable; therefore, the choice of contraception and the timing of contraceptive initiation are critical.

A study presented at ESCMID Global 2025 has demonstrated that an AI-powered lung ultrasound outperforms human experts by 9% in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Twins—smaller at birth ...

Long-acting reversible methods of contraception (LARC) are 20-fold more effective than oral contraceptive pills, patch and ring, and have higher satisfaction and continuation than non-LARC methods.

More information: Victor Choi et al, Repurposing antimicrobials with ultrasound-triggered nanoscale systems for targeted biofilm drug delivery, npj Antimicrobials and Resistance (2025). DOI: 10. ...

Medical imaging is the technique and process of creating visual representations of the interior of a body for clinical analysis, and medical intervention.