The hormone prolactin has long been understood to play a vital role in breast growth and development and the production of milk during pregnancy. But a pair of recent studies conducted at VCU Massey ...

Many people in India face the frustration of irregular periods, unexplained weight gain, and fatigue that seem to point to ...

In 1929 Scientist Karl Ehrhardt of Germany published photographs of a female monkey holding a young guinea pig in a maternal manner. This foster mother had been injected with a crude extract from ...

Predictive value of the modified systemic inflammation score in patients undergoing curative resection of squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.

Pituitary adenomas are tumors that start in your pituitary gland. They’re usually noncancerous and grow slowly. Prolactinomas are pituitary adenomas that secrete the hormone prolactin. Pituitary ...

Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers among women worldwide, and researchers have long sought to understand the myriad factors that may influence its development. Among these factors, ...

A woman who put her rapid breast growth down to hormone changes has warned others to get 'checked out' after doctors gave her a shocking diagnosis. Lauren Ayres says her boobs grew three sizes in the ...

Nursing poses major metabolic demands on mothers, to which they respond by eating more and saving energy to sustain milk production. There are significant hormonal changes during lactation, but how ...