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fertility
 9/9/2010 Johns Hopkins Researchers Unravel Clues To Infertility Among Obese Women
Obese women have a well-known risk for infertility, but a new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study has unraveled what investigators there believe is the mechanism that accounts for the risk. The research, conducted in mice and published online on Sept...
9/9/2010 Discovery Of Missing Link Between Obesity And Infertility
Obesity and infertility frequently go hand in hand. Now, researchers reporting on studies of mice in the September issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, might have figured out why that is, and the results come as something of a surprise. "There was a sense that the reproductive dysfunction was due to insulin resistance," said Andrew Wolfe of Hopkins Children's...
9/9/2010 Smoking Damages Men's Sperm And Also The Numbers Of Germ And Somatic Cells In Developing Embryos
Two new studies have shed more light on how smoking may damage fertility, and give further weight to advice that mothers and fathers-to-be should stop smoking before attempting to conceive. The research is published online in the reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction (Wednesday 8 September)...
9/9/2010 'The Determinants Of A Successful Pregnancy' - ESHRE's First Workshop In Croatia
The workshop provides a forum for clinicians and scientists to share research results and discuss new developments: ESHRE Campus symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-25 September 2010...
9/9/2010 Top Expert On Male Reproductive Health Launches New Website To Help Men Understand And Overcome Fertility And Sexual Health Issues
The Turek Clinic, founded by men's reproductive health pioneer, Paul Turek, MD, unveiled a new website dedicated to educating men on sexual health and male fertility problems. The site is designed to be an educational tool on topics ranging from vasectomy and reversal to sperm retrieval and testicular mapping, a minimally invasive procedure pioneered by Dr...
9/9/2010 'Female And Male Surgery In Human Reproductive Medicine' Workshop
The workshop provides a forum for clinicians and scientists to share research results and discuss new developments: ESHRE Campus symposium, Treviso, Italy, 8-9 October 2010...
9/9/2010 Justice Dept. Asks Federal Judge To Allow Stem-Cell Research While Case Is Appealed
The Wall Street Journal: "The Obama administration asked a federal judge Tuesday to allow the government to continue funding embryonic stem-cell research while a case challenging the program makes its way through the courts. The judge, Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C...
9/9/2010 Ariz. Conservatives Enact Several Bills Related To Reproductive Rights
This legislative session, Arizona lawmakers and Gov. Jan Brewer (R) enacted several laws that affect reproductive rights, including a measure that prohibits municipalities from offering abortion coverage in their health insurance plans, the Arizona Republic reports. The laws took effect July 29...
9/9/2010 Birth Rates Fall Amid Economic Uncertainty
Births rates have declined in several states, a trend experts link to the uncertain economic outlook and high unemployment rate, NPR's "All Things Considered" reports. Recent data indicate that Illinois' birth rate is at its lowest level since the Great Depression, with similar trends appearing in California and Arizona...
9/9/2010 Molecular Approaches To Better Understand Male Infertility
Male infertility is a common medical problem, affecting millions of men in the United States annually. Its causes include an inability to make productive sperm. Now, using yeast as a model organism, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are beginning to identify the molecular signals that could in part underlie that problem. Shelley Berger PhD, the Daniel S...
9/9/2010 Leading-Edge Resource Aims To Educate Infertility Patients On Their Options
Infertility is an unexpected obstacle for many people, and the journey can be unpredictable. Patients may find themselves at a crossroads after multiple failed attempts with fertility treatments, and begin to look for other options...
9/9/2010 Cell Division Study Sheds Light On Special Mechanism In Egg Cells
In a study of egg cells using time-lapse microscopy, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered an unusual property of meiosis - cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms...
9/9/2010 Repros Requests Type B Meeting With FDA To Discuss Phase III Protocols For Androxal(R)
Repros Therapeutics Inc. (NasdaqCM:RPRX) announced that the Company has requested a Type B Meeting in order to review the Company's Phase III protocols for Androxal® in the treatment of secondary hypogonadism. Androxal is an oral drug that normalizes both testosterone and sperm levels. Larry I...
9/9/2010 Studying Yeast To Better Understand Male Infertility
Men and yeast have something in common: they use the same molecular process to ensure the integrity of their gene pool during reproduction. This is a recent finding by researchers from CNRS, Inserm and the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble...
9/9/2010 Social Pressure, Affordable Access Prompt Older Women In India To Seek IVF Services
Intense social pressure to bear children and access to relatively affordable reproductive technology has spawned hundreds of infertility clinics across India, where a significant number of clients are women older than age 50, the Washington Post reports...
9/9/2010 Involuntary Childlessness More Detrimental Than Originally Thought
Test-tube fertilisation is the reason why more couples than previously now have the chance to become biological parents. However, the path to achieving this can be laborious and, for some, the treatment is unsuccessful. A thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, indicates that people are more negatively affected than previously reported in studies of involuntary childlessness...
9/9/2010 Stress Could Decrease Women's Chances Of Conceiving, Study Reports
Women with elevated stress levels might be less likely to get pregnant, according to a study published recently in the journal Fertility and Sterility, USA Today reports...
9/9/2010 Technique To Preserve Fertility In Young Women May Be Unsafe For Patients With Leukemia
Although the use of ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation has lead to 13 live births in women with lymphoma or solid tumors, this method of fertility preservation may be unsafe for patients with leukemia, according to a recent study published online in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology...
9/9/2010 Technique To Stimulate Egg Cell Maturation Has Implications For Infertility, Stem Cell Research
U.S., Chinese and Japanese scientists have discovered a way to prompt immature eggs in mice to develop into mature eggs, a method that could eventually be used to help infertile women, according to a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the New York Times reports...
9/9/2010 Ga. GOP Gubernatorial Race Hinges On Abortion, Other Social Issues
Abortion rights have become a critical issue in Georgia's GOP gubernatorial primary between former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel -- a "relatively centrist Republican" -- and former U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, a more conservative candidate, the Wall Street Journal reports. Handel leads by five percentage points in the polls heading into today's primary...
9/9/2010 Boston Globe Opinion Piece Considers Ethics Of Passing On Defective Genes Through Infertility Techniques
As the first generation of children born using the fertility technique intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection "enters adolescence, one side effect of the technology has become clear: it enables the passing down of genetic defects from parent to child," Sylvia Pagan Westphal writes in a Boston Globe opinion piece...
9/9/2010 INVO Bioscience Commences Registration Process For INVOCell Fertility Device In China
INVO Bioscience, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: IVOB), a medical device company focused on treatment options for patients diagnosed with infertility, announced that it has commenced the registration process for its INVOCell fertility device with the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC)...
9/9/2010 Zinc Helps To Make A Good Egg And Healthy Embryo
Scientists as well as fertility doctors have long tried to figure out what makes a good egg that will produce a healthy embryo. It's a particularly critical question for fertility doctors deciding which eggs isolated from a woman will produce the best embryos and, ultimately, babies...
9/9/2010 Regulation Of IVF Procedures At Issue In Ga. GOP Gubernatorial Primary
Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidates Karen Handel and Rep. Nathan Deal (Ga.) have different opinions on whether they would support efforts to restrict the number of embryos created for in-vitro fertilization procedures, the AP/Macon Telegraph reports. Handel and Deal will face each other in an Aug. 10 runoff for the GOP nomination...
9/9/2010 Tobacco-Related Research At UC Riverside Benefits From 6 Grants
Tobacco-related disease kills more people worldwide than any other single factor. To help address this problem, the University of California, Riverside has received six grants from the University of California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), the most TRDRP grants the campus has received in any year...
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