Fertility News From Medical News Today
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:29:59 +0100
Free Hormonal Contraception Halved Termination Rate
3500 20- to 24-year-old women from Tromsø and Hamar in Norway were offered free hormonal contraception for a year. The result was that the abortion rate in the trial cities was halved...
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Home SpermCheck Test Helps Couples Hoping To Conceive Better Understand Infertility Issues
Infertility affects between 10 and 15 percent of couples worldwide. Surprisingly, problems with male fertility account for approximately 50 percent of infertility cases. A new home test kit based on a protein in sperm discovered by University of Virginia Health System cell biologist John C. Herr, PhD, can assist couples in determining if a man's sperm count is normal, low, or very low...
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Gonorrhea Cases Rise Sharply In Alaska
Alaska health officials have reported that the state's gonorrhea rates increased by 69% in 2009 after remaining steady for years, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Susan Jones of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services said the increase is the biggest one-year jump since the 1970s...
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
British Fertility Society Issues New Guidelines On The Use Of Acupuncture And Chinese Herbal Medicine In Fertility Treatment, UK
The British Fertility Society has issued new guidelines in the journal Human Fertility on the use of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in fertility treatment. The guidelines found that there is currently no evidence that having acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine treatment around the time of assisted conception increases the likelihood of subsequent pregnancy...
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Researchers Find Exposure To BPA May Cause Permanent Fertility Defects
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in their DNA. The findings were reported in the March issue of Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB J.). Led by Hugh S. Taylor, M.D...
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Women 40 And Under Can Now Freeze Their Eggs At Genetics & IVF Institute For Use In The Future
Genetics & IVF Institute (GIVF) is launching a Personal Egg Banking service in the Washington, DC area to help women 40 and under who want to cryopreserve (freeze) their eggs now for use in the future when they wish to become pregnant. The age of a woman's eggs dramatically affects her ability to conceive...
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Assisted Reproduction Has No Effect On Birthing Process Or The Baby's Outcome
Whether a women gets pregnant the "traditional" way or by assisted reproduction has no effect on the birthing process itself or the baby, researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have found. Gynaecologist and medical researcher Liv Bente Romundstad and colleagues from NTNU and St Olav's University Hospital in Trondheim looked at the pregnancies of more than 1...
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
How Bisphenol A Induces Epigenetic Changes In Pregnant Mice That Cause Hormonal Imbalance In The Later Life Of Female Progeny
Here's more evidence that "safe" plastics are not as safe as once presumed: New research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy leads to epigenetic changes that may cause permanent reproduction problems for female offspring...
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:00:00 PDT
Ferring Pharmaceuticals And Gene Security Network Partner To Test Advanced Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) Technology
Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Gene Security Network (GSN) announced that they have signed an agreement to conduct a clinical trial of GSN's advanced preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) technology, Parental Support™. The 11-center U.S...
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Research Suggests Female Fertility Declines More Rapidly Than Previously Thought, Washington Post Column Says
It is well-documented that female fertility decreases as age advances, but new research suggests that the decline might begin much earlier and progress much faster than previously thought, Carolyn Butler writes in a Washington Post column...
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PDT
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