Copyright 2009 Medical News Today Latest Fertility News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/fertility/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156435.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156435.php Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI), a leading specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories, Inc., has received approval today from the United States Food and Drug Administration on its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for levonorgestrel tablets, 0.75 mg, for women seventeen years and younger. Fertility Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156364.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156364.php More than 40 scientists, bioethicists, lawyers and science journal editors are calling on their colleagues, policy makers and the public to begin developing guidelines for the research and reproductive use of stem cell-derived eggs and sperm, even though such use may be a decade or more away. "Science has always moved faster than social debate or society's ability to grapple with these issues," says Debra Mathews, Ph.D. Stem Cell Research Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156332.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156332.php A Georgia law (HB 388) that took effect on Wednesday allows state residents to "adopt" embryos created for fertility treatments, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (Gould Sheinin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 7/1). According to the Fertility Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156144.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156144.php There is growing evidence that a procedure for identifying chromosomal abnormalities in embryos prior to in vitro fertilization is ineffective at helping older women become pregnant, the Wall Street Journal reports. The procedure -- known as pre-implantation genetic screening, or PGS -- is performed in dozen of U.S. Fertility Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156112.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156112.php The Guardia Pro Protective Embryo Transfer Catheteris uniquely engineered to protect and guide embryos through cervical mucus and blood and to eliminate the need for cervical flushing or aspiration prior to transfer. The Guardia Pro's outer sheath protects the embryo through entry and then opens in petals to further advance the inner transfer catheter allowing placement of the embryo in the uterine cavity. Fertility Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156101.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156101.php For the first time, scientists have shown that chromosomal abnormalities are present in more than 90% of IVF embryos, even those produced by young, fertile couples. Fertility Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156103.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156103.php For the first time, researchers have been able to identify genetic predictors of the potential success or failure of IVF treatment in blood. Dr. Cathy Allen, from the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, told the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday 1 July) that her research would help understand why IVF works for some patients but not for others. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156064.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156064.php Commenting on the news announced today by ESHRE's European IVF monitoring consortium on the improvements in the quality, safety and efficacy of ART, Clare Lewis-Jones MBE, Chief Executive of Infertility Network UK said "We are angry that although the UK pioneered infertility treatment, we are still among the lowest providers in Europe of NHS treatment, and these figures show that availability in the UK is less than one third of that in Denmark. Fertility Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156068.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156068.php Schering-Plough Corp., (NYSE: SGP) announced results from the Phase III ENGAGE clinical trial demonstrating that a single injection of corifollitropin alfa, first in the class of sustained follicle stimulants, achieved similar efficacy to recombinant follicle stimulating hormone (rFSH) given once daily for seven days. Fertility Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156011.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156011.php Transferring just one embryo at a time to a woman's womb after embryos have undergone preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and freezing at the blastocyst stage has become a real option after researchers achieved pregnancy rates that were as good as those for blastocysts that had not had a cell removed for PGD before freezing. Fertility Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156006.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156006.php Women who have a diminished number of eggs in their ovaries, either because they are older or for some other reason such as ovarian surgery, may be more at risk of a trisomic pregnancy than women with an ovarian reserve within the normal, fertile range. Trisomic pregnancies occur when the embryo has three copies of a chromosome rather than the normal two. The most common trisomy is Down's syndrome or trisomy 21. Fertility Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156007.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156007.php Daily sex (or ejaculating daily) for seven days improves men's sperm quality by reducing the amount of DNA damage, according to an Australian study presented to the 25th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam. Sexual Health / STDs Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156013.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156013.php One-step screening for both genetic and chromosomal abnormalities has come a stage closer as scientists announced that an embryo test they have been developing has successfully screened cells taken from spare embryos that were known to have cystic fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156018.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156018.php A major new trial recently published in the journal Fertility and Sterility shows that for couples beginning infertility treatments, an accelerated path to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) can offer a shorter time to pregnancy, cost savings of nearly $10,000, and a lowered risk of multiple births. For the first time, these results demonstrate that the long held treatment combining fertility injections with insemination (IUI) does not have a place in infertility treatments today. Fertility Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156009.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156009.php Women with cystic fibrosis can have fertility treatment to help them have babies without any long-term adverse effects on either themselves or their children, according to new research presented at the 25th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam. Until relatively recently, cystic fibrosis (CF) was a death sentence and most people with the disease died by the time they reached their teenage years. Cystic Fibrosis Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155952.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155952.php The Guardia Pro Protective Embryo Transfer Catheter is uniquely engineered to protect and guide embryos through cervical mucus and blood and to eliminate the need for cervical flushing or aspiration prior to transfer. Medical Devices / Diagnostics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155958.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155958.php Two recent advancements in ovarian transplant techniques could potentially expand the availability of the procedure for women seeking to avoid fertility problems as they age, researchers reported Monday at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, the AP/Yahoo! News reports. Fertility Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155906.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155906.php New data from an economic analysis presented today at this year's European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) congress showed that, within the parameters of the simulation model used, the in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment MENOPUR (highly-purified human menopausal gonatropin or HP-hMG) offered considerable cost-savings over recombinant follicle stimulating hormone (rFSH). Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155777.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155777.php Federally mandated health insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization for women of childbearing age "could lower the extraordinary health care costs associated with the birth of triplets or more" and "even the reproductive odds, giving the middle-class and lower-income Americans access to treatment that is currently reserved for the well-off or the unusually well insured," according to a Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155839.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155839.php A new technique for transplanting the ovaries of women who have lost their fertility as a result of cancer treatment was outlined to the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Dr. Pascal Piver, manager of the IVF Centre at Limoges University Hospital, Limoges, France, described a new, two-step method of ovarian transplant that has produced excellent results in women whose ovaries have been frozen because of cancer treatment. Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155847.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155847.php Dutch researchers have found the first evidence that a process of inactivating the X chromosome during embryo development and implantation, which was known to occur in mice but unknown in humans, does, in fact, take place in human female embryos prior to implantation in the womb. Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155848.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155848.php A substantial number of European patients travel to other countries for fertility treatment, both because they think that they will receive better quality care abroad and in order to undergo procedures that are banned in their home country says a study of the subject launched at the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Study co-ordinator Dr. Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155773.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155773.php Ultra-fast freezing of ovarian tissue from women who have lost their fertility as a result of cancer treatment can lead to it being used in transplants with the same success rate as fresh tissue, a researcher told the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology 29 June. Dr. Sherman Silber, Director of the St. Louis Infertility Centre, St. Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155769.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155769.php Analysis of the longest running ICSI programme in the United States has found reassuring evidence that babies born from frozen embryos fertilised via ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) do just as well as those born from frozen embryos fertilised via standard IVF treatment. Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155770.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155770.php A new test examining chromosomes in human eggs a few hours after fertilisation can identify those that are capable of forming a healthy baby, a researcher told the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Dr. Fertility