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Smartphone app linked to increase in contraceptive use in India
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • Jan 28 16
A smartphone app containing motivational videos developed to help married rural women in India better understand contraceptive choices led to a dramatic increase in…
Low-level arsenic exposure before birth associated with early puberty and obesity
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Obesity • • Public Health • Aug 26 15
Female mice exposed in utero, or in the womb, to low levels of arsenic through drinking water displayed signs of early puberty and became…
Penn team identifies gene responsible for some cases of male infertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Sexual Health • Jul 01 15
In the most severe form of male infertility, men do not make any measurable levels of sperm. This condition, called azoospermia, affects approximately 1…
Black women often cope with infertility alone
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • • Pregnancy • Jun 04 15
African-American women are equally, if not more, likely to experience infertility than their white counterparts, but they often cope with this traumatic issue in…
Impact of obesity on fertility can be reversed
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Obesity • Feb 10 15
In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at the University of Adelaide have revealed how damage from obesity is passed from a mother to her children,…
Swedish researchers question treatment of infertility with stem cells
• Fertility and pregnancy • Feb 04 15
Whether or not infertility can be treated with stem cells has been a matter of debate for many years.
The classical theory is based…
HHS Takes Another Step Back From Contraceptive Coverage
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • Aug 25 14
The Obama administration is extending an exemption to the Obamacare contraceptive coverage mandate to include closely held for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations whose…
U.S. justices uphold firms’ religious objections to contraception
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • • Public Health • Jul 01 14
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that owners of private companies can object on religious grounds to a provision of President Barack Obama’s…
Preterm births, multiples, and fertility treatment
• Childbirth • • Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • Apr 16 14
While it is well known that fertility treatments are the leading cause of increases in multiple gestations and that multiples are at elevated risk…
Multiple births don’t have to be an inevitable result of fertility treatments
• Childbirth • • Fertility and pregnancy • Apr 16 14
While fertility treatments have helped many people become parents, they commonly result in multiple births, increasing the risk of prematurity, and leading to lifelong…
Study Shows Promise of Preserving Fertility in Boys with Cancer
• Cancer • • Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Male • Mar 27 14
Scientists have moved a step closer to being able to preserve fertility in young boys who undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer. The…
Pregnant women need not avoid peanuts, evidence shows
• Allergies • • Fertility and pregnancy • • Food & Nutrition • • Pregnancy • Dec 24 13
Women need not fear that eating peanuts during pregnancy could cause their child to develop a peanut allergy, according to a new study from…
Saving fertility not priority at most cancer centers
• Cancer • • Fertility and pregnancy • Dec 19 13
Infertility is consistently listed as one of the most distressing long-term side effects of cancer treatment for adolescents and young adults. Yet the…
Marketing loans for fertility treatments raises ethical concerns
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • Dec 09 13
An increase in the number of lenders specializing in loans for fertility treatments enables more people to afford the treatments, but it also raises…
Fertility treatments responsible for high multiple births in U.S.: study
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • Dec 04 13
More than a third of twin births and more than three-quarters of triplets or higher-order births in the United States are the result of…
Could basic fertility information be key to reversing late-parenthood trend?
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • Nov 18 13
Increasingly, young people around the world are planning to have children later in life, despite the fact that fertility declines with age after young…
Nanoparticles to probe mystery sperm defects behind infertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Sexual Health • Nov 15 13
A way of using nanoparticles to investigate the mechanisms underlying ‘mystery’ cases of infertility has been developed by scientists at Oxford University.
The technique,…
U.S. girls keep hitting puberty earlier
• Children's Health • • Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • • Obesity • Nov 04 13
Girls are developing breasts at younger and younger ages, a new study confirms. And upward trends in childhood obesity seem to be playing a…
Fertility treatment outcomes can be significantly influenced by mother’s ethnicity
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • Oct 31 13
Maternal ethnicity is a significant determinant of successful outcomes after fertility treatment, suggests a new study published today (30 October) in BJOG: An International…
Antioxidants unlikely to boost female fertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • Aug 06 13
For women who struggle to conceive, there is little evidence that antioxidant supplements increase their chances, according to a new review.
Some women take…
BPA exposure disrupts human egg maturation
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • Jul 30 13
As many as 20 percent of infertile couples in the United States have unexplained reasons for their infertility. Now, new research led by Catherine…
Texas abortion restrictions headed for approval in state Senate
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Jul 12 13
A Republican proposal that would ban most abortions in Texas after 20 weeks of pregnancy moved toward a possible final vote in the state…
FDA expands “morning after” pill approval after court order
• Drug News • • Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Jun 20 13
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday expanded its approval of the so-called “morning after” contraceptive pill to include all women of child-bearing…
Johnson & Johnson recalls Cilest birth control pills
• Drug Abuse • • Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • Jun 05 13
Johnson & Johnson is voluntarily recalling about 32 million packages of its birth control pill Cilest in Europe, Asia and Latin America, a spokeswoman…
Women’s reproductive ability may be related to immune system status
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • • Immunology • May 17 13
New research indicates that women’s reproductive function may be tied to their immune status. Previous studies have found this association in human males, but…