Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/fertility/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241287.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241287.phpResearchers at Yale School of Medicine have, for the first time, described the genetic basis of endometriosis, a condition affecting millions of women that is marked by chronic pelvic pain and infertility. The researchers' discovery of a new gene mutation provides hope for new screening methods...Women's Health / Gynecology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241076.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241076.phpInvoluntary childlessness owing to reduced fertility is a concern for many men. However, these men do have one advantage - they run a significantly lower risk of suffering from prostate cancer. Researchers are interested in whether this phenomenon could be used in the fight against cancer. There is a clear link between male subfertility and a lower risk of prostate cancer...Fertility Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241021.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241021.phpAlthough women over age 50 who become pregnant via egg donation are at an elevated risk for developing obstetrical complications, their complication rates are similar to those of younger recipients, according to a study by Columbia University Medical Center researchers to be published in the February 2012 issue of the American Journal of Perinatology...Fertility Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240974.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240974.php Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' offices around the world. Sound too good to be true? For years, scientists thought so too. But new research headed by Dr...Fertility Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240834.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240834.phpFor the first time in Germany, a woman has given birth to a child after removal and preservation of tissue from one of her ovaries. This course of action was necessary to avoid infertility owing to chemo- and radiotherapy. Andreas Müller and his colleagues report the case in the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[1-2]: 8-13)...Fertility Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240159.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240159.phpWho knew that male fertility depends on sperm-cell architecture? A University of Illinois study reports that a certain omega-3 fatty acid is necessary to construct the arch that turns a round, immature sperm cell into a pointy-headed super swimmer with an extra long tail...Fertility Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240131.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240131.phpTraditional Chinese medicine has long been used to ease pain, treat disease, boost fertility, and prevent miscarriage. Known in the Western medical community by its acronym TCM, these traditional remedies include herbal preparations and acupuncture...Fertility Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240122.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240122.phpYoung female cancer survivors are concerned about their future fertility and parenthood options and want better information and guidance early on, according to a new study by Jessica Gorman and her team from the University of California in the US...Fertility Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240008.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240008.php Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services today announced the publication of an article in the December issue of Reproductive BioMedicine Online about miscarriage rates following IVF treatment with frozen thawed embryos which may revolutionize clinical and laboratory practice...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239966.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239966.php The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) released a report showing that the rate of twin births has risen quite substantially since the 1980s, especially amongst older women. In 1980, one in every 53 births was a twin birth, while by 2009 the number had risen to one in every 30, or three percent...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239842.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239842.phpA new technique successfully used in mice to identify embryos likely to result in a successful pregnancy could be used in humans, potentially boosting IVF success rates and helping to reduce the number of multiple births (1), according to Cardiff University scientists...Fertility Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238764.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238764.phpReproductive and somatic aging use different molecular mechanisms that show little overlap between the types of genes required to keep oocytes healthy and the genes that generally extend life span, according to Coleen Murphy, Ph.D., of Princeton University, who described her new findings on oocyte aging at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in Denver...Seniors / Aging Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238455.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238455.phpMales who place a laptop on their laps with the WI-FI on might have a greater risk of reduced sperm motility and more sperm DNA fragmentation, which could, in theory, undermine their chances of becoming fathers, researchers from Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva, Argentina, and the Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA, reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility this week...Fertility Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238015.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238015.php Teen births in the US hit a record low in 2010, and for the first time in a decade, C-sections appear to be falling, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These revelations are in a report released last week titled "Births: Preliminary Data for 2010" from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics...Fertility Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237911.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237911.phpNew research in Developmental Cell suggests that increasing expression of certain developmental genes at precise times in the uterus might improve pregnancy rates from in vitro fertilization-embryo transfers (IVF-ET), which remain low at around 30 percent. Conducted by researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the study was published online by the journal on Nov. 17...Fertility Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237954.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237954.phpDoes pregnancy start at conception - when the sperm fertilizes the egg? Or does it begin one week later when the embryo implants in the uterus? According to a survey carried out by researchers from the University of Chicago and published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, not even doctors appear to agree. Dr. Farr A...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237951.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237951.phpThe percentage of teenage girls in the USA getting pregnant to full term has dropped to a record low in 2010, a new report issued by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), titled "Births: Preliminary Data for 2010," informed this week, as did the birth rate for most females of reproductive age. In 2010 the teenage birth rate rate fell to 34...Fertility Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237861.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237861.phpNew research published online in Developmental Cell indicates that higher expression of certain developmental genes at precise times in the uterus might improve pregnancy rates from in vitro fertilization-embryo transfers (IVF-ET). So far, these rates remain low at around 30%...Fertility Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237788.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237788.phpA Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher has achieved a significant breakthrough in male fertility, producing normal sperm from mouse cells...Fertility Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237655.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237655.php There is a significant link between use of oral contraceptives or birth control pills and the incidence of prostate cancer, said researchers who set out to investigate the suggestion that byproducts of these drugs get into the environment, for instance the water supply, and lead to an increase in low level estrogen exposure in affected populations...Prostate / Prostate Cancer Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237157.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237157.phpA new study published in European Obstetrics & Gynaecology (European Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2011;6(2):92-4) shows that DuoFertility used for six months (a small body-worn monitor coupled with an expert consultancy service) gives the same chance of pregnancy as a cycle of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) for many infertile couples...Fertility Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236974.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236974.phpCompared to most other cells in an organism, sperm undergo a radical transformation to become compact and mobile delivery systems for paternal DNA...Fertility Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236843.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236843.php Almost 10 million American women of childbearing age are affected by chronic pelvic pain, gastrointestinal and urinary tract difficulties and infertility due to endometriosis, a strange condition, in which cells normally forming the lining of the uterus (endometrium) start colonizing other organs and tissues beyond the uterus...Women's Health / Gynecology Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236677.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236677.php A Dutch study suggests that stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs for in vitro fertilization or IVF, may increase the risk of developing ovarian tumors, some of which may become cancerous, later in life...Fertility Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236628.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236628.phpAmino acids, the building blocks of proteins, are essential to support the normal growth of a developing embryo and the placenta...Veterinary