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Many high school girls report dating violence
• Fertility and pregnancy • Aug 02 04
Nearly one in five sexually active teenage girls in the U.S. say they have been physically abused by a date in the past year,…
Gulf War veterans show fertility problems - study
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jul 14 04
Veterans of the first Gulf War are showing signs of fertility problems compared with armed forces colleagues who did not serve there, according to…
Late childbirth lowers ovarian cancer risk
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jul 14 04
At last, a health benefit to having children late in life - it seems to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, U.S. researchers reported…
Aspirin ups success of test tube fertilization
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jul 02 04
A short course of low-dose aspirin seems to improve the chances that in vitro fertilization (IVF) will result in pregnancy and birth, new research…
Expectant moms should be active, doctors say
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jun 27 04
Fanatics and runners who become pregnant for the first time may be shocked to learn that the bible for all mothers-to-be, What to Expect…
Women and kids should strictly limit fish
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jun 24 04
Children, pregnant women, and women who are planning to become pregnant should strictly limit their intake of fish and avoid some types altogether to…
Antidepressants to come with pregnancy precaution
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jun 10 04
Drug makers are adding a notice to widely used antidepressants that babies of women who take the drugs late in pregnancy may experience jitteriness…
New guidelines to protect frozen sperm, embryos
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jun 08 04
Britain issued new guidelines on Tuesday to protect frozen sperm, eggs and embryos stored in fertility clinics from being accidentally destroyed.
The Human Fertilisation…
Father’s smoking ups early miscarriage risk
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 30 04
Pregnant women exposed to large amounts of secondhand smoke - such as when their husband smokes - are more likely to miscarry during the…
Oral Hygiene Linked To Pre-Term Births
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 28 04
A team of researchers - led by Yiping Han, a microbiologist from Case Western Reserve University - have discovered that a bacterium (Fusobacterium nucleatum)…
Exposure To Nicotine In Womb May Set Stage For Later Addictions
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 28 04
Prenatal exposure to nicotine appears to inflict lasting damage that may leave the brain vulnerable to further injury and addiction upon later use of…
Herbal Fertility Supplement Shows Positive Results In Study
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 28 04
A researcher at Stanford University says a small study shows promise for a nutritional supplement that may help boost fertility in women who have…
Dental X-Rays Linked To Low-Weight Babies
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 28 04
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Dentistry say that women who have dental X-rays during pregnancy are three times as likely to…
Vatican Condemns Fertility Help
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 27 04
The Vatican issued a broad condemnation Tuesday of fertility treatments such as in-vitro fertilization, calling the destruction of embryos in the process a “massacre…
Worry affects female fertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 27 04
“Don’t worry, be happy” may sound like patronizing advice to a woman seeking help in having a baby but it may be just what…
Impotence drug could offer long-term help -study
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 27 04
Anti-impotence drugs could offer long-term help to some men who have had prostate surgery or who otherwise lose their sexual potency, researchers reported on…
Weighing the costs of fertility treatments
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 26 04
Sondra Headrick is in the 27th week of a pregnancy perilous for herself and the six babies growing inside her. Her sextuplets resulted from…
Appeal of home testing of men’s fertility is in its privacy
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 26 04
In a couple’s efforts to get pregnant, the woman has her ovulation predictor kit, but what about the man? Men have fertility problems, too.
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A Patient’s Gift
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 26 04
I’ll tell you, after all the disappointments and all the grieving and sitting with people that I do, it was just like the sun…
In vitro fertilization or donor insemination may have a positive effect
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 26 04
Parents who use assisted reproduction technology (ART) may be more receptive and nurturing than those who conceive their children naturally, researchers report.
A follow-up…
Italy Doctor Says Three Cloned Pregnancies Exist
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 26 04
An Italian fertility specialist who has said he intends to create the world’s first human clone told a television show on Wednesday three women…
Fertility Hormones Do Not Boost Cancer Risk-Study
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 26 04
Hormone treatments, especially those used for in vitro fertilisation (IVF), do not seem to increase the risk of gynaecological cancer in the 6 years…
CDC: Fertility Procedures on Rise
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 26 04
Fertility procedures in the United States jumped by 27 percent in just two years, according to government researchers who said they are worried about…
Study Examines Human Fertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 26 04
New research has provided the most precise insight yet into when biological clocks start ticking loudly - and it’s sooner than once thought: age…
Gene Linked to Nerve Degeneration, Infertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 26 04
Scientists have linked mutations in a gene associated with regeneration in damaged spinal cells with nerve degeneration and male infertility in mice.
They say…