Archive for the ‘Fertility’ Category
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
After 30 years of IVF, the rewards of treatment are still largely confined to industrialised countries and those who can afford it. Now, a Special Task Force of ESHRE has set about the immeasurable task of making fertility treatment more accessible to developing countries through a programme of pilot ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Although younger people are becoming more positive towards surrogate mothers, current day attitudes to surrogacy are still broadly negative, a scientist will tell the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Monday 7 July). Professor Olga van den Akker, from the Department of Psychology, ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Researchers in France studying over 12,000 couples with fertility problems found that when the man was over 35 pregnancy rates fell and perhaps more surprisingly, miscarriage rates rose, leading them to conclude that the age of the father was just as important as the age of the mother in ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Thomas Beatie, a 34-year-old American man who used to be a woman, gave birth to a healthy baby girl in a hospital in Oregon last Sunday. Beatie made headline news in March when he revealed in Advocate, the gay rights magazine, that he was five months pregnant.Beatie was born ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
For women who would like to have children but who have not yet found the right partner or the right time in their lives, the door to a new option has opened wide. Research now shows an advanced egg-freezing technique known as vitrification, a quick freezing method, is a safe ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Now we know - for sureAdding to a growing literature on the role of metabolic enzymes and ATP production in sperm function, it is now shown that one lactate dehydrogenase family member, LDHC, is required for male fertility. Several decades of work on this glycolytic enzyme had shown that it ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
UroToday.com - This study is a retrospective study of 313 ICSI cycles designed to evaluate the impact of sperm defect severity (ejaculated sperm) and the type of azoospermia on the outcomes. Two major groups according to the source ofspermatozoa used for ICSI were studied. Group 1 included 220 cycles ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
The National Center for Health Statistics data indicate that Georgia had 149,919 new babies born in 2007, the latest year statistics are available. That means, obviously, not only were there many thousands of new mothers, there also were thousands of new fathers as well. "If you're ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
IntegraMed America, Inc. (NASDAQ: INMD) announced that it has expanded the scope of services available for donor egg recipients under its innovative Shared Risk® Refund Program for in vitro fertilization (IVF) . Under IntegraMed's Shared Risk Refund IVF program, patients are entitled to a refund of up to 100% of ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
MPs have started voting on a series of reforms to the 1990 embryology laws. The measures which are part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill, are aimed at updating laws in line with scientific advances. On 19 May MPs voted by 336 votes to 176 in favour of ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
To address the shortage of experienced tubal ligation reversal specialists, a tubal reversal surgery training program has been started at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. An ominous forecast was made in a recent article in Fertility and Sterility, a medical journal for ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Letter to the EditorMuslim and Christian divine teachings prohibit almost all the proposals in the Embryo bill: 1.The making of a new creation through a cross-species (human-animal) hybrid. 2.The destruction of human embryos. 3.The making of a child without a known caring father. 4.The abuse of IVF to make children ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill started its journey through the House of Commons, and leading fertility patient organisations are calling for the government to look again at the issue of surrogacy law. "Patients conceiving through surrogacy suffer serious legal difficulties" says leading fertility law expert Natalie Gamble of ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Hispanic women in the U.S. have higher fertility rates than non-Hispanic women, and unmarried Hispanic women born in the U.S. are more likely to have children than single immigrant Hispanic and non-Hispanic women, according to an analysis released on Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center, the AP/Hartford Courant reports (Gamboa, ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Young women would accept age-based screening for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia, but would want this test to be offered to everyone, rather than to people 'singled out' according to their sexual history.In the study, published in the BioMed Central open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, the Australian women interviewed ...
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