New $9.5 million grant to support Male Contraception Research Center
... necessary to address the broad issues involved in fertility regulation," Bremner said. The UW Center consists of three research projects in the departments of Medicine, Genome Sciences, and Pharmacology; an administrative core; and a program for fellows and new investigators. There is a fourth project at ...Jefferson researchers find uterine artery embolization may negatively affect future pregnancies
... of the increasing number of women desiring future fertility who are electing to undergo this therapy," says lead author Jay Goldberg, M.D., clinical assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Jefferson Medical College. "Based on the available data, women becoming pregnant after uterine artery emboliz...Northwestern on trail of gene mutations that trigger sex reversal
...ify mutations in mice that cause developmental and fertility defects and to characterize the mutations responsible for these defects. The research projects are part of the NIH's initiative to determine the function of mammalian genes. To identify mutations in the sex determination genes that cause sex revers...Penn State to host national symposium on fertility decline in developed countries
...ily Symposium to examine the reasons for depressed fertility and the factors people consider when deciding whet...sants will consider what led to these contemporary fertility patterns and what they portend for union formation, the well-being of children and adults, and the i...Concerns over national policy on infertility treatment
Decisions about providing fertility treatment on the NHS should be made locally accord...one, about how far we as a society want to provide fertility services and to whom. Even with these guidelines it is unclear whether the government will ensure th...Hospital care quality differs markedly by state: annual HealthGrades study
...000 nursing homes, 10,000 mammography clinics, 300 fertility clinics, 60,000 chiropractors, 6,000 home health agencies, 75 birth centers and 3,000 hospice care facilities. HealthGrades is also working closely with the Leapfrog Group to disseminate information on hospital patient safety activities to consumer...Mayo Clinic finds weight not a factor among women using fertility technologies to become pregnant
... of lower birth rates among overweight women using fertility technologies to become pregnant, according to a Ma...ous studies have shown that overweight women using fertility technologies such as in vitro fertilization have significantly lower birth rates. This fact has caus...... that the aging of the brain adversely affects the fertility of female rats. The scientist suspects that her research will provide insights into fertility problems of women over the age of 30. Franke studied relatively young subfertile rats. Although the ...Sperm from marijuana smokers move too fast too early, impairing fertility, UB research shows
...r sperm behave abnormally, all of which may affect fertility adversely, a new study in reproductive physiology ...ffected likely have naturally occurring borderline fertility potential, and THC from marijuana may push them over the edge into infertility," she said. As to th...Fertility worries common in young breast cancer survivors
...r Symposium, is the largest to date that addresses fertility and menopausal concerns among young women with bre...y, 72 percent of the women said they had discussed fertility issues with their doctor and 17 percent had talked with a fertility specialist. Still, one-quarter o...The BESST way to judge IVF success
...let and twin gestations." At the moment, however, fertility clinics are usually compared on the basis of their...Healy's proposal has caught the attention of large fertility societies such as the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, which invited him to wr...At AAAS: Biocomplexity panel on human-nature interactions
...ct pandas in China? Do"poverty traps" deplete soil fertility in Kenya? Do parallelsexist between logging in the American Midwest and the BrazilianAmazon? Questions like these are not simple to answer. To address them,the National Science Foundation in 1999 launched a major researcheffort aptly called "Biocomp...Specialists: Laparoscopy can help infertile women avoid months of unnecessary treatments
... some studies, also may be associated with reduced fertility and may respond to laparoscopic surgery. Only 35.9 percent of patients had a completely normal pelvis. Analyzing patient demographic data, medical histories, and laparoscopic results, the study's authors attempted to determine if certain factors coul...UK Teenage Cancer Trust demands government action to aid young cancer patients
...nsition from childhood to adulthood; the effect on fertility is a major and poignant consideration; relationships are crucial to teenagers and cancer isolates the young patient; education is vital for 16-18 year-olds yet is rarely provided in a hospital setting for this age group; being thrown from growing ind...Cedars-Sinai March medical tipsheet
...vulation fails to become pregnant after a trial of fertility pills (clomiphene citrate). If the tubes appear to...roblems who do not become pregnant after using the fertility pill clomiphene citrate should undergo a laparoscopy prior to further treatment. Laparoscopic evalua...Ovarian tissue storage and later transplant shows promise for women infertile from cancer therapy
...nique which could potentially help women to regain fertility after early menopause due to cancer therapy. Resul...e every year. One of the ways to possibly preserve fertility before these treatments is to freeze (cryopreserve) ovarian tissue for later transplantation. ...OHSU scientists advance fertility preservation procedure
...ificantly advanced a procedure aimed at preserving fertility in female cancer survivors. The research has resul...his breakthrough may be a major step in preserving fertility for young cancer survivors. In the future this procedure could allow a significant number of these c...Deleting neural STAT3 protein in mice
...role. Fu said the study shows that body weight and fertility are essentially controlled through STAT3 functions in the brain. These discoveries, he said, could help in the development of new therapeutics to treat obesity and infertility....Fertility herbal supplement sprouts promising results in Stanford pilot study
...e for a nutritional supplement that may help boost fertility in women who have difficulty conceiving. Initial r... benefit of a pre-pregnancy supplement to optimize fertility health. "There's not a lot of work in this area but it's an important one," she said. "Many women ar...Frozen, fresh sperm both effective for in vitro fertilization
... In vitro fertilization starts with a woman taking fertility drugs to stimulate her ovaries to produce more eggs than usual. When the eggs are mature, they are retrieved from the ovary and introduced to washed sperm to allow fertilization. The availability of sperm on the day eggs are retrieved is critical to ...