“Nulliparous” is a fancy medical word used to describe a woman who hasn’t given birth to a child. It doesn’t necessarily mean that she’s never been pregnant — someone who’s had a miscarriage, ...

A large, Swedish, population registry study suggests that nulliparous women 35 years of age or older are at greater risk for stillbirth compared with both younger women and similarly aged parous women ...

Quantitative fetal fibronectin screening and transvaginal cervical length measurement do not accurately predict preterm birth in first-time pregnant women at low risk for the outcome, new data show.

In this multicenter trial, we randomly assigned low-risk nulliparous women who were at 38 weeks 0 days to 38 weeks 6 days of gestation to labor induction at 39 weeks 0 days to 39 weeks 4 days or to ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. April 28, 2016 Add as ...

Musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging (USI) has been used for diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) screening in physiotherapy, especially concerning parous women. Measurements of inter-recti distance ...

The FDA has now approved IUDs for women who have never given birth. IUDs are effective in preventing pregnancy and have a low failure rate. Nulliparous women have shown high satisfaction with IUDs, ...

Parity induces lasting changes in the mammary gland with age To understand whether pregnancy alters the aging of the mammary gland, we compared 18-month-old parous mice (18 M P) that have undergone ...

IUD device LARC is safe and effective in nulliparous adolescents and should be considered as a viable alternative to oral contraception. SAN ANTONIO – Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Elective labor induction rose by 42% after publication of the ARRIVE trial of induction outcomes. No significant ...

Healthcare Reform and Women’s Health Preventive Services: What is Now Cost-Free to the Patient? Miss C, a nulliparous 23-year-old woman, arrives as a new patient for an annual exam. She is also ...

Approximately 10% to 40% of nulliparous women in Sweden reported having urinary incontinence. All aspects of urinary incontinence have been reported in nulliparous women, with increasing prevalence ...