Press Releases
May 20, 2013
For the first time, in Fertility and Sterility, researchers present age-specific probabilities of live birth after IVF with frozen eggs. Although IVF with frozen eggs results in lower live birth rates than fresh IVF cycles, the technique plays an important part in the treatment of infertility patients for whom embryo freezing presents religious or ethical obstacles and for patients whose cycles are interrupted.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
May 20, 2013
Time-lapse imaging which takes thousands of pictures of developing embryos can boost the success rate of IVF, according to British research.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
May 20, 2013
Millions of couples suffer from infertility. Contrary to popular belief, doctors say at least 50 percent of the time, infertility is actually because of the man. There are some things men can do to prevent infertility.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
May 20, 2013
A new study says little is being done to meet the growing demand for modern contraception methods in poor countries. The Guttmacher Institute says there’s an increasing desire for smaller families.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
May 17, 2013
The news that U.S. scientists have successfully cloned a human embryo seems almost certain to rekindle a political fight that has raged, on and off, since the announcement of the creation of Dolly the sheep in 1997.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
May 17, 2013
One of the greatest fears of younger women who have to undergo chemotherapy to fight tumors is possible fertility damage. But the mechanism responsible for the destruction of the eggs in their ovaries and the resultant infertility has not been understood until now.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
May 17, 2013
Opioid use, particularly long-term use, may be associated with erectile dysfunction and low testosterone, researchers found.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
May 17, 2013
Ovarian cancer rates in the U.S. began to decline faster in 2002 around the time many older women went off hormone replacement therapy, according to a new study.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
May 16, 2013
Couples in Scotland who need help conceiving will be guaranteed two free infertility treatments from 1 July
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
May 16, 2013
Slim women have a higher risk of developing endometriosis than women who are morbidly obese, according to a new major study.