Copyright 2010 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 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3yYShttp://mnt.to/f/3yYSUroToday.com - The perceived benefits of robotic surgery in terms of elimination of tremor, field magnification, motion scaling, ergonomic surgeon controls and ergonomic surgeon posturing are likely to have an even greater impact in the field of microsurgery than laparoscopy...Fertility Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3z9Bhttp://mnt.to/f/3z9BA Virginia infertility clinic incited debate on Wednesday by sponsoring a contest at a London seminar in which the prize was a no-cost cycle of in vitro fertilization using eggs from a U.S. woman, the Washington Post reports. The seminar, hosted by the Genetics & IVF Institute, sought to entice British women to seek donor eggs in the U.S. (Stein, Washington Post, 3/18)...Fertility Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3yZqhttp://mnt.to/f/3yZqIrvine Scientific, a pioneer in developing products specifically for the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) community, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved their products intended for vitrification of pronuclear (PN) zygotes through day 3 cleavage and blastocyst stage embryos within the fertility area...Fertility Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3yZhhttp://mnt.to/f/3yZhUterine fibroid embolization, a minimally invasive interventional radiology procedure that blocks blood supply to treat painful uterine fibroids, has a comparable fertility rate to myomectomy, the surgical removal of uterine fibroids, for women who want to conceive, according to the first study on the subject released at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Sci...Women's Health / Gynecology Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3yT5http://mnt.to/f/3yT53500 20- to 24-year-old women from Tromsø and Hamar in Norway were offered free hormonal contraception for a year. The result was that the abortion rate in the trial cities was halved...Endocrinology Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3yQmhttp://mnt.to/f/3yQmInfertility affects between 10 and 15 percent of couples worldwide. Surprisingly, problems with male fertility account for approximately 50 percent of infertility cases. A new home test kit based on a protein in sperm discovered by University of Virginia Health System cell biologist John C. Herr, PhD, can assist couples in determining if a man's sperm count is normal, low, or very low...Fertility Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3yQzhttp://mnt.to/f/3yQzAlaska health officials have reported that the state's gonorrhea rates increased by 69% in 2009 after remaining steady for years, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Susan Jones of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services said the increase is the biggest one-year jump since the 1970s...Sexual Health / STDs Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3yHzhttp://mnt.to/f/3yHzThe British Fertility Society has issued new guidelines in the journal Human Fertility on the use of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in fertility treatment. The guidelines found that there is currently no evidence that having acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine treatment around the time of assisted conception increases the likelihood of subsequent pregnancy...Fertility Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3yGwhttp://mnt.to/f/3yGwResearchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in their DNA. The findings were reported in the March issue of Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB J.). Led by Hugh S. Taylor, M.D...Fertility Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3ypNhttp://mnt.to/f/3ypNGenetics & IVF Institute (GIVF) is launching a Personal Egg Banking service in the Washington, DC area to help women 40 and under who want to cryopreserve (freeze) their eggs now for use in the future when they wish to become pregnant. The age of a woman's eggs dramatically affects her ability to conceive...Fertility Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3yhvhttp://mnt.to/f/3yhvWhether a women gets pregnant the "traditional" way or by assisted reproduction has no effect on the birthing process itself or the baby, researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have found. Gynaecologist and medical researcher Liv Bente Romundstad and colleagues from NTNU and St Olav's University Hospital in Trondheim looked at the pregnancies of more than 1...Fertility Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3ycThttp://mnt.to/f/3ycTHere's more evidence that "safe" plastics are not as safe as once presumed: New research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy leads to epigenetic changes that may cause permanent reproduction problems for female offspring...Fertility Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3ybMhttp://mnt.to/f/3ybMFerring Pharmaceuticals and Gene Security Network (GSN) announced that they have signed an agreement to conduct a clinical trial of GSN's advanced preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) technology, Parental Support™. The 11-center U.S...Fertility Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3y7phttp://mnt.to/f/3y7pIt is well-documented that female fertility decreases as age advances, but new research suggests that the decline might begin much earlier and progress much faster than previously thought, Carolyn Butler writes in a Washington Post column...Fertility Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3y7shttp://mnt.to/f/3y7sNew research to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has found that dizygotic1 (non-identical) twins conceived through IVF face an increased risk of neonatal complications, as compared to spontaneously conceived (non-IVF) dizygotic twins. One of the most recognized complications of IVF is the increased risk of multiple pregnancy...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3y6Phttp://mnt.to/f/3y6PFor the first time, a woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using transplants of ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen during her cancer treatment and then restored once she was cured. Following her ovarian transplant, Mrs Stinne Holm Bergholdt gave birth to a girl in February 2007 after receiving fertility treatment to help her become pregnant...Fertility Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3y77http://mnt.to/f/3y77Boston IVF, a leading medical practice providing specialized infertility treatment since 1986, is expanding its patient care services in Maine and has opened Boston IVF The Maine Center, offering local patients state-of-the-art care closer to home...Fertility Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3y5jhttp://mnt.to/f/3y5jWomen who become pregnant with a single foetus after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) have an increased risk of a stillbirth, according to new research out today (Wednesday)...Fertility Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3y4zhttp://mnt.to/f/3y4zFew medical differences exist between children conceived using assisted reproductive technology and those who were naturally conceived, researchers reported on Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the AP/Chicago Tribune reports...Fertility Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3y4yhttp://mnt.to/f/3y4yAs assisted reproductive technologies advance and become more widely used, Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. are working to clarify options for infertile Catholics, the Religion News Service/Washington Post reports. During a November 2009 meeting of the U.S...Fertility Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3y4dhttp://mnt.to/f/3y4dAfter a devastating loss of their five month old son to a genetically linked disease, a North Carolina couple finds hope for a healthy baby through an innovative technology called Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)...Fertility Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3xYthttp://mnt.to/f/3xYtMore than three million children have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies since the birth of the first "test tube baby" in 1978. While the majority of these children are healthy and normal, as a group they are at greater risk of certain kinds of birth defects and being low birth weight, which is associated with obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes later in life...Fertility Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3xRXhttp://mnt.to/f/3xRXA UCSF team, led by bioethicist Bernard Lo, MD, recommends that the National Institutes of Health ethics guidelines for embryonic stem cell research be modified to better protect the rights of individuals donating egg or sperm to patients undergoing in vitro fertilization. The recommendation is reported in the February 19, 2010 issue of Science...Stem Cell Research Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3xPshttp://mnt.to/f/3xPsFertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) has officially launched their Egg Donor Program, making them the only in house program in Chicago offering third party reproduction options, fertility treatment, fertility counseling and more in one place. Dr. Jane Nani, Director of the FCI Egg Donor Program, is enthusiastic to provide additional fertility services to couples looking to grow their families...Fertility Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:00:00 PDThttp://mnt.to/f/3xHNhttp://mnt.to/f/3xHNA new 'fertility chip', developed by researchers at the University of Twente's MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, can accurately count spermatozoa in sperm. This is an important step towards the development of a compact device for reliable 'pre-scanning' of male fertility. The researchers are publishing the invention of the chip in the scientific journal Lab on a Chip...Fertility