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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Supportâ„¢. The 11-center U.S...
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...
BJOG Release: IVF Twins Face Greater Risk Of Neonatal Complications
New research to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has found that dizygotic1 (non-identical) twins conceived through IVF face an increased risk of neonatal complications, as compared to spontaneously conceived (non-IVF) dizygotic twins. One of the most recognized complications of IVF is the increased risk of multiple pregnancy...
Woman Gives Birth To Two Healthy Babies In Separate Pregnancies After Ovarian Transplant
For the first time, a woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using transplants of ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen during her cancer treatment and then restored once she was cured. Following her ovarian transplant, Mrs Stinne Holm Bergholdt gave birth to a girl in February 2007 after receiving fertility treatment to help her become pregnant...
Leading U.S. Infertility Practice Opens Boston IVF The Maine Center In Portland, Helping Build Families In Maine
Boston IVF, a leading medical practice providing specialized infertility treatment since 1986, is expanding its patient care services in Maine and has opened Boston IVF The Maine Center, offering local patients state-of-the-art care closer to home...
Risk Of Stillbirth Is Four Times Higher After IVF/ICSI Compared To Spontaneous Pregnancies
Women who become pregnant with a single foetus after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) have an increased risk of a stillbirth, according to new research out today (Wednesday)...
Children Conceived Through Assisted Reproduction Show Few Medical Differences, Researchers Say
Few medical differences exist between children conceived using assisted reproductive technology and those who were naturally conceived, researchers reported on Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the AP/Chicago Tribune reports...
Catholic Bishops Work To Clarify Church Teachings On Assisted Reproductive Technology
As assisted reproductive technologies advance and become more widely used, Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. are working to clarify options for infertile Catholics, the Religion News Service/Washington Post reports. During a November 2009 meeting of the U.S...
North Carolina Couple Finds Hope For A Healthy Baby Through Technology That Screens Embryos For Genetic Disorders
After a devastating loss of their five month old son to a genetically linked disease, a North Carolina couple finds hope for a healthy baby through an innovative technology called Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)...
Children Of Assisted Reproductive Technology Face Genetic Health Risks
More than three million children have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies since the birth of the first "test tube baby" in 1978. While the majority of these children are healthy and normal, as a group they are at greater risk of certain kinds of birth defects and being low birth weight, which is associated with obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes later in life...
According To UCSF Team, NIH Stem Cell Guidelines Should Be Modified
A UCSF team, led by bioethicist Bernard Lo, MD, recommends that the National Institutes of Health ethics guidelines for embryonic stem cell research be modified to better protect the rights of individuals donating egg or sperm to patients undergoing in vitro fertilization. The recommendation is reported in the February 19, 2010 issue of Science...
Fertility Centers Of Illinois Launches In House Egg Donor Program Providing One Stop Shop For Couples
Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) has officially launched their Egg Donor Program, making them the only in house program in Chicago offering third party reproduction options, fertility treatment, fertility counseling and more in one place. Dr. Jane Nani, Director of the FCI Egg Donor Program, is enthusiastic to provide additional fertility services to couples looking to grow their families...
Reliable Home Fertility Test In Sight
A new 'fertility chip', developed by researchers at the University of Twente's MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, can accurately count spermatozoa in sperm. This is an important step towards the development of a compact device for reliable 'pre-scanning' of male fertility. The researchers are publishing the invention of the chip in the scientific journal Lab on a Chip...
What Is An Ovarian Cyst? What Causes Ovarian Cysts?
An ovarian cyst is an accumulation of fluid within an ovary that is surrounded by a very thin wall. Any ovarian follicle that is larger than approximately two centimeters is an ovarian cyst. Ovarian cysts can range widely in size; from being as small as a pea to larger than an orange - in rare cases ovarian cysts can become so large that the woman looks pregnant...
Repros Submits Response To FDA Regarding Androxal(R) Indication For Treatment Of Hypogonadal Men Wishing To Preserve Fertility
Repros Therapeutics Inc. (NasdaqCM:RPRX) announced that the Company, as requested by the FDA during the Type C meeting held on January 25, 2010, has sent a revised indication statement to the FDA's Division of Reproductive and Urologic Products for the use of Androxal® in the treatment of men wishing to preserve fertility while being treated for their hypogonadal state...
Autism Risk Higher When Mother Is Older, Study
Researchers who studied records of all births occurring in California in the 1990s found that the risk of having a child with autism was significantly higher when the mother was older, regardless of the father's age, except when the mother was younger, the risk was also higher if the father were older...
Biocell Center Furthers Its Commitment To Maternal Fetal Medicine
Biocell Center announced its further commitment to working with maternal-fetal-medicine doctors by attending the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting. "Biocell Center has been working with perinatologists and Ob/Gyn doctors worldwide for several years," said Kate Torchilin, CEO of Biocell Center Corporation...
What Are Irregular Periods (Oligomenorrhea)? What Causes Irregular Periods?
Oligomenorrhea is a medical term which generally refers to irregular or infrequent menstrual periods with intervals of more than 35 days - however, the duration may vary. A period, or menstruation, is the shedding of the endometrium - the lining of the uterus. Menstruation is also called menses...
New Study Demonstrates Novel Use Of Metabolic Imaging To Locate Sperm In Infertile Men
Men with no sperm in their ejaculate-a condition known as azoospermia- may no longer need invasive procedures to determine if they have sperm in their testes according to a new study published in Human Reproduction...
Sperm Discovery Suggests New Target For Male Contraception
Most of us probably think of sperm as rather active little cells, swimming with quick movements of their "tail" or flagella. But actually sperm's motility is in fact short lived. When in the male reproductive tract they have to rest easy, lest they wear themselves out prematurely and give up any chance of ever finding an egg...
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