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North Carolina may compensate sterilization victims
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Aug 02 11
North Carolina should compensate the surviving victims of the state’s forced sterilization program, the Governor’s Eugenics Compensation Task Force recommended on Monday.
The task…
Immune therapy can control fertility in mammals
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Immunology • Mar 31 11
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have shown that it is possible to immunize mammals to control fertility. They say their technique could possibly…
Mother’s obesity may lead to infertility in the next generation
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Obesity • Mar 23 11
Levels of the hormone ghrelin are low in obese women and a recent study accepted for publication in Endocrinology, a publication of The Endocrine…
Passive smoking increases risk to unborn babies, study says
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 10 11
Pregnant non-smokers who breathe in the second-hand smoke of other people are at an increased risk of delivering stillborn babies or babies with defects,…
Family planning programs have success in developing countries, but need to be expanded
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Feb 21 11
While many researchers generally credit the desire for smaller families for the decline in fertility rates in developing, low-income countries, new research suggests that…
Male subfertility helped by antioxidants says research
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Male • • Sexual Health • Jan 20 11
Antioxidants may help improve male fertility, early research suggests.
A review of existing data found, compared with controls, a couple was more likely to…
Drugs may level fertility playing field for obese
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Obesity • Jan 07 11
Heavy women often have a harder time getting pregnant than their slimmer peers, but new findings suggest weight may cease to matter when women…
Study finds food in early life affects fertility
• Dieting • • Fertility and pregnancy • • Food & Nutrition • Dec 20 10
The research, which was published online this month (17 December 2010) in the journal Ecology, is the first study of its kind to show…
Perinatal Bisphenol-A Exposure May Affect Fertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • Dec 02 10
Exposure to a ubiquitous environmental chemical during pregnancy may impair reproductive capacity of female offspring, according to a study published online in advance of…
Conception is a rare event, fertility study shows
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • Oct 26 10
Fewer than 8 percent of all tries at making a baby in a lab dish will succeed, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
A review…
Infertility more common in women with epilepsy
• Epilepsy • • Fertility and pregnancy • Oct 12 10
Women with epilepsy may have a higher-than-average risk of fertility problems, particularly those on multiple anti-seizure drugs, a study published Monday suggests.
Researchers in…
Successful periodontal therapy may reduce the risk of preterm birth, according to Penn dental study
• Dental Health • • Fertility and pregnancy • Sep 15 10
A collaboration led by a periodontal researcher from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine has found a possible link between the success…
Unequal access drives fertility tourism, experts say
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Sep 14 10
Patients who cross borders in search of cheaper, more available fertility treatment can now choose from more than 100 countries but may be putting…
Johns Hopkins researchers unravel clues to infertility among obese women
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Obesity • Sep 07 10
Obese women have a well-known risk for infertility, but a new Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study has unraveled what investigators there believe is the…
Fertility treatment tied to risk of cerebral palsy
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Neurology • Jul 05 10
A new study confirms that children conceived via infertility treatment may have a higher-than-average risk of cerebral palsy - explained largely by their higher…
Study shows vitamin A doesn’t cut maternal deaths
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • • Mortality and Morbidity • May 04 10
Giving vitamin A to women 15 to 45 years old living in poor nations does not cut maternal death rates, scientists said Tuesday in…
No link between infertility, rare infant cancer
• Cancer • • Fertility and pregnancy • Apr 26 10
Children conceived with the help of infertility treatment are no more likely than those conceived naturally to develop infant leukemia, according to the…
Alternative remedy use common among infertile in US
• Fertility and pregnancy • Mar 31 10
A substantial number of American couples are looking beyond just state-of-the-art fertility treatments to therapies dating back centuries in hopes of improving their chances…
Mediterranean diet tied to fertility treatment success
• Dieting • • Fertility and pregnancy • Mar 19 10
Women who closely adhere to a Mediterranean-style diet rich in vegetables, vegetable oils and fish may have a higher likelihood of becoming pregnant after…
Fertility problems may not affect kids’ coordination
• Children's Health • • Fertility and pregnancy • Mar 01 10
Despite some concerns to the contrary, parents’ fertility problems may have little effect on their children’s risk of coordination problems as they reach…
One in 10 births around world premature, WHO says
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Jan 06 10
One in 10 of the some 130 million births around the world each year is premature, the vast majority in poorer countries where chances…
Increased Stroke Risk from Birth Control Pills
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • • Stroke • Oct 26 09
She was only 30 years old, but she was experiencing the classic symptoms of a stroke. Her speech suddenly became slurred, and her left…
Teenage birth rates higher in more religious states
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • Sep 17 09
Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion.…
Fertility drug combo promising in older women
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • Jul 03 09
The combination of two drugs - Femara (letrozole) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) - could be of benefit in infertile women of advanced reproductive age…
Ageing Japan’s fertility rate up but population falls
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jun 04 09
Japan’s fertility rate inched up for the third year in a row in 2008, but its ageing population still shrank, with 51,300 more deaths…