Breaking news on fertility
Men With Reduced Fertility At Reduced Risk For Prostate Cancer published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Involuntary childlessness owing to reduced fertility is a concern for many men. However, these men do have one advantage - they run a significantly lower risk of suffering from prostate cancer. Researchers are interested in whether this phenomenon could be used in the fight against cancer. There is a clear link between male subfertility and a lower risk of prostate cancer...
Women Over Age 50 Not At Increased Risk During Pregnancy Via Egg Donation Compared To Younger Women published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Although women over age 50 who become pregnant via egg donation are at an elevated risk for developing obstetrical complications, their complication rates are similar to those of younger recipients, according to a study by Columbia University Medical Center researchers to be published in the February 2012 issue of the American Journal of Perinatology...
Ultrasound Male Contraceptive, Overlooked For Decades, Confirmed To Work published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' offices around the world. Sound too good to be true? For years, scientists thought so too. But new research headed by Dr...
Removal And Storage Of Ovarian Tissue Enables Birth After Cancer Treatment published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
For the first time in Germany, a woman has given birth to a child after removal and preservation of tissue from one of her ovaries. This course of action was necessary to avoid infertility owing to chemo- and radiotherapy. Andreas Müller and his colleagues report the case in the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[1-2]: 8-13)...
Dietary DHA Linked To Male Fertility published
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
Who knew that male fertility depends on sperm-cell architecture? A University of Illinois study reports that a certain omega-3 fatty acid is necessary to construct the arch that turns a round, immature sperm cell into a pointy-headed super swimmer with an extra long tail...
Traditional Chinese Medicine Makes Fertility Treatments Far More Effective, TAU Researchers Discover published
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
Traditional Chinese medicine has long been used to ease pain, treat disease, boost fertility, and prevent miscarriage. Known in the Western medical community by its acronym TCM, these traditional remedies include herbal preparations and acupuncture...
Young Female Cancer Survivors Express Their Concerns And Frustrations About The Impact Of Their Disease, Treatment, Future Fertility published
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Young female cancer survivors are concerned about their future fertility and parenthood options and want better information and guidance early on, according to a new study by Jessica Gorman and her team from the University of California in the US...
New Practice Model May Reduce Miscarriage After Assisted Reproduction published
Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services today announced the publication of an article in the December issue of Reproductive BioMedicine Online about miscarriage rates following IVF treatment with frozen thawed embryos which may revolutionize clinical and laboratory practice...
Twin Births Rise Dramatically, Especially For Older Women published
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PST
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) released a report showing that the rate of twin births has risen quite substantially since the 1980s, especially amongst older women. In 1980, one in every 53 births was a twin birth, while by 2009 the number had risen to one in every 30, or three percent...
Predicting IVF Embryos With Best Success Chances And Reducing Multiple Pregnancies published
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
A new technique successfully used in mice to identify embryos likely to result in a successful pregnancy could be used in humans, potentially boosting IVF success rates and helping to reduce the number of multiple births (1), according to Cardiff University scientists...
Aging Human Bodies And Aging Human Oocytes Run On Different Clocks published
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
Reproductive and somatic aging use different molecular mechanisms that show little overlap between the types of genes required to keep oocytes healthy and the genes that generally extend life span, according to Coleen Murphy, Ph.D., of Princeton University, who described her new findings on oocyte aging at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in Denver...
Wi-Fi Laptops Harm Sperm Motility And Increase Sperm DNA Fragmentation published
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:00:00 PST
Males who place a laptop on their laps with the WI-FI on might have a greater risk of reduced sperm motility and more sperm DNA fragmentation, which could, in theory, undermine their chances of becoming fathers, researchers from Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva, Argentina, and the Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA, reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility this week...
Teen Births Hit Record Low, C-Sections Down, CDC Reports For 2010 published
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:00:00 PST
Teen births in the US hit a record low in 2010, and for the first time in a decade, C-sections appear to be falling, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These revelations are in a report released last week titled "Births: Preliminary Data for 2010" from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics...
Improving IVF Success By Increasing Uterine Expression Of Developmental Genes published
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
New research in Developmental Cell suggests that increasing expression of certain developmental genes at precise times in the uterus might improve pregnancy rates from in vitro fertilization-embryo transfers (IVF-ET), which remain low at around 30 percent. Conducted by researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the study was published online by the journal on Nov. 17...
When Does Pregnancy Start? Doctors' Opinions Vary published
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
Does pregnancy start at conception - when the sperm fertilizes the egg? Or does it begin one week later when the embryo implants in the uterus? According to a survey carried out by researchers from the University of Chicago and published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, not even doctors appear to agree. Dr. Farr A...
Overall Birth Rates Drop As America's Economy Bites published
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PST
The percentage of teenage girls in the USA getting pregnant to full term has dropped to a record low in 2010, a new report issued by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), titled "Births: Preliminary Data for 2010," informed this week, as did the birth rate for most females of reproductive age. In 2010 the teenage birth rate rate fell to 34...
Improving IVF Success - Increasing Uterine Expression Of Developmental Genes published
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PST
New research published online in Developmental Cell indicates that higher expression of certain developmental genes at precise times in the uterus might improve pregnancy rates from in vitro fertilization-embryo transfers (IVF-ET). So far, these rates remain low at around 30%...
Male Fertility Breakthrough Achieved By Researchers published
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:00:00 PST
A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher has achieved a significant breakthrough in male fertility, producing normal sperm from mouse cells...
Oral Contraceptive Use Tied To Prostate Cancer published
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:00:00 PST
There is a significant link between use of oral contraceptives or birth control pills and the incidence of prostate cancer, said researchers who set out to investigate the suggestion that byproducts of these drugs get into the environment, for instance the water supply, and lead to an increase in low level estrogen exposure in affected populations...
DuoFertility Or IVF For Infertile Couples? published
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
A new study published in European Obstetrics & Gynaecology (European Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2011;6(2):92-4) shows that DuoFertility used for six months (a small body-worn monitor coupled with an expert consultancy service) gives the same chance of pregnancy as a cycle of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) for many infertile couples...
Researchers Able To Track Critical Fertility Enzymes Using Live-Action Films Of Worm Sperm published
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
Compared to most other cells in an organism, sperm undergo a radical transformation to become compact and mobile delivery systems for paternal DNA...
Laparoscopic Excision Surgery For Endometriosis Frees Patients From Chronic Pain And Complications published
Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:00:00 PST
Almost 10 million American women of childbearing age are affected by chronic pelvic pain, gastrointestinal and urinary tract difficulties and infertility due to endometriosis, a strange condition, in which cells normally forming the lining of the uterus (endometrium) start colonizing other organs and tissues beyond the uterus...
IVF May Be Tied To Ovarian Tumors Later In Life published
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:00:00 PST
A Dutch study suggests that stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs for in vitro fertilization or IVF, may increase the risk of developing ovarian tumors, some of which may become cancerous, later in life...
Inadequate Supply Of Protein Building Blocks May Explain Pregnancy Failures In Bovine Cloning Experiments published
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:00:00 PST
Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, are essential to support the normal growth of a developing embryo and the placenta...
Study Confirms Some Contraceptive Pills More Likely To Cause Blood Clots published
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PST
Risk of venous thromboembolism from use of oral contraceptives containing different progestogens and oestrogen doses: Danish cohort study, 2001-9 A study published on http://www.bmj.com confirms previous findings that certain oral contraceptive pills are more likely to cause serious blood clots (venous thromboembolism - VTE ) than others...
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