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Since 1998, Women’s Health Research at Yale’s signature Pilot Project Program has provided critical seed funding for Yale faculty examining sex differences across health in conditions that affect women differently, disproportionately, and uniquely. Our program serves as an incubator for catalyzing new approaches to understanding the health of women, and/or the influence of sex differences on health, consistent with the NIH definition. The 2025-26 application process is now open.

Asking better questions, listening more closely, and monitoring more carefully can mean the difference between life and death.

“Beauty of Science 2025” displays the striking imagery from YSM researchers across disciplines.

Each year in Minnesota, 400 babies are stillborn. Many mothers and families could be spared this heartbreak if medicine incorporated a 30-second procedure as standard practice.

There are simple steps that can help prevent a stillbirth, but Angela Moxley didn't learn that until she went through a stillbirth herself.

Serotonin is widely known as one of the human body’s “happiness hormones.” But Dr. Harvey Kliman, director of the Reproductive and Placental Research Unit at Yale, said serotonin is also a growth hormone — and it works in ways that can result in bigger or smaller babies in utero.

In a new study, Yale researchers show that the placenta regulates serotonin delivery to the fetus, contrary to past beliefs that it manufactures the hormone. 

The placenta has long been thought to produce serotonin during pregnancy. But in a new study, Yale researchers shatter the deep-rooted hypothesis.

A story circulating on social media this week featured a seemingly made-up scientist who is developing an equally imaginary "pregnancy robot." Virality ensued.