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Personhood Advocates Initiate 2012 Ballot Measure Processes in Arkansas, Nevada, Colorado, and OhioJanuary 4, 2012 (ASRM Bulletin) -- READ MORE...
Scientists Grow Sperm in Laboratory Dish Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could soon see human sperm grown in the laboratory.January 3, 2012 (The Telegraph) -- The development opens up the possibility of infertile men being able to father their own children rather than using donor sperm. READ MORE...
Advances in Fertility New findings can help people with infertility issues.January 2, 2012 (DailyRx) -- For men and women who yearn for children and try unsuccessfully to conceive, sometimes for years, fertility problems can be devastating. In recent decades many technologies have been developed, such as in vitro fertilization, that help people conceive a child much more successfully. New advances are made all the time, and some recent research is bringing even more hope to people who struggle with infertility. READ MORE...
Do Twin Embryos Help Each Other Survive in IVF? A new controversial study suggests a stronger embryo may help a weaker one survive in twin pregnancies created by in vitro fertilization (IVF). January 2, 2012 (Today Health msnbc.com) -- Spanish researchers found that the overall rate of survival to birth per embryo was 83 percent in twin pregnancies compared with 76 percent when women carried only one child. READ MORE...
Making Babies: Why Are So Many Infertile?December 21, 2011 (Fox News) -- Kate* and her husband Greg of Greenville, N.C. struggled to conceive for a year-and-a-half before making an appointment with an infertility specialist. READ MORE...
Recurrent Pelvic Inflammation Ups Infertility, Pelvic Pain Nearly doubles infertility risk; ups chronic pelvic pain more than four-fold
November 11,2011 (HealthDay News) -- Recurrent pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is associated with a nearly two-fold increase in infertility and more than four-fold increase in chronic pelvic pain (CPP). READ MORE...
Miscarriage, Prematurity Up After Hurricane Katrina ART-conceived singleton pregnancies show increased miscarriage, prematurity after disaster.
October 18, 2011 (ASRM) -- For singleton pregnancies conceived through artificial reproductive technology (ART), there was an increase in adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as miscarriage and extreme prematurity, following Hurricane Katarina (HK). READ MORE...
Health Risks for Women Exposed to DES in Utero Increased adverse outcomes for diethylstilbestrol-exposed women with vaginal epithelial changes
October 5, 2011 (New England Journal of Medicine) -- Women who were exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol (DES) have a higher lifetime risk for several adverse health outcomes, according to a study published in the Oct. 6 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. READ MORE...
Celiac Disease May Be Risk Factor for Infertility Women with infertility treated for celiac disease conceived within year of gastrointestinal diagnosis
August 22, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Women with unexplained infertility may be at a higher risk of undiagnosed celiac disease, according to a study published in the May-June issue of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine. READ MORE...
My Fertility Crisis: We hear about fertility treatments when they're successful. But for millions of women, they mean regret, heartbreak, shame and silence.
July 23, 2011 (Wall Street Journal) -- Usually it's only the people who come out beaming on the other side, with a baby on one hip, who speak up about in vitro fertilization. We never hear from those whom IVF has failed—it's too crushing to talk about. We don't hear from men and women in the middle of treatment, either. Our culture doesn't seem to know how to deal with people before we've figured out if they're successful or not. People like me. READ MORE...
Study Links Male Infertility to a Missing Protein
July 20, 2011 (New York Times -- Scientists say they have found a potential cause for a number of otherwise unexplained cases of male infertility: the absence of a protein that coats sperm and allows them to reach an egg more easily. READ MORE...
Surprising Causes of Male Infertility
June 28, 2011 (Wall Street Journal) -- On average, the typical man makes about 1,000 sperm every heartbeat. Yet a number of lifestyle choices, environmental factors and chance events can sabotage the sperm: an adolescent groin injury, cigarette smoking, heavy drinking, intense cycling and even using a laptop directly on the lap. READ MORE...
What's That Ticking Sound? The Male Biological Clock: Men are also at the mercy of age when it comes to having kids
June 25, 2011 (Wall Street Journal) -- Several months ago, my friend Anna called to complain about her boyfriend of eight months. Bombarded by media warnings about the female biological clock, he wanted to make sure that Anna was fit for childbearing before the relationship moved forward. He had taken her to a fertility clinic where a reproductive endocrinologist drew blood to check her ovarian reserve and injected radioactive iodine into her uterus to ensure that her fallopian tubes were clear. READ MORE...
Obesity Linked to Lower IVF Pregnancy, Live Birth Rates: Obese women undergoing IVF have fewer normally fertilized oocytes, lower estradiol levels
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Women with a body mass index (BMI) of 40 kg/m² or more who undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) have a significantly reduced likelihood of clinical pregnancy and live birth than women with normal BMI, according to a study published in the July issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. READ MORE...
ASMBS: Gastric Bypass Tied to Improved Conception Rate: Excellent postoperative conception rates, symptom relief achieved in obese women with PCOS
WEDNESDAY, June 15, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- In morbidly obese women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), weight loss after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) achieves amelioration of PCOS with improved postoperative conception rate, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, held from June 12 to 17 in Orlando, Fla. READ MORE...
Rheumatoid Arthritis May Delay Time to Pregnancy: Pregnant women with RA more likely to take more than 12 months to conceive
TUESDAY, June 14, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) prior to conceiving may have a longer time to pregnancy (TTP), according to a study published in the June issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism. READ MORE...
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