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Long Acting Reversible Contraception

The most commonly used contraceptives among adolescents are condoms, withdrawal and oral contraceptive pills. These methods are commonly chosen due to their accessibility, yet are inconsistently or incorrectly used, leading to high failure rates.
Forty-three percent of unintended pregnancies are a result of inconsistent or incorrect use of contraceptives. A solution to this problem is long acting reversible contraception (LARC). LARC includes intrauterine devices (IUDs) and etonogestrel implants. LARC has been shown to be acceptable to teens and young women with higher continuation rates than short-acting methods.

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‘Can’t Get Enough of You Baby’: IVF Clinic Says Vibrations from Barry White’s Deep Soul Tracks ‘Help Embryos to Develop’

A renowned fertility clinic has carried out a scientific study which claims musical vibrations increase the success of IVF. Songs from the late soul legend such as ‘Can’t get enough of you baby’ have become the most streamed music through the iPods fitted in the incubators where embryos are developing.

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Careful Who You Kiss: Virus Found in Saliva Associated with Unexplained Infertility

Alcohol, caffeine and bad diet have all been linked to poor fertility, but up until now no one has blamed the humble kiss. Now scientists believe they have found a link between unexplained infertility and an obscure virus which they believe is transmitted by kissing.

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Quality of Life Improves in PCOS With Weight-loss Intervention, Hormonal Contraception

Use of hormonal contraceptives and an intensive lifestyle intervention, either alone or in combination, were effective in improving physical and mental domains in relation to quality of life, depressive symptoms and anxiety disorders in women with overweight or obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome.

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Creator of Dolly the Sheep Calls for Bank of Animal Cells as Insurance Against Extinction

The man responsible for creating the most famous sheep in the world wants to use similar cloning techniques to establish a “Noah’s ark” of cells in order to save the world’s animals from extinction.
Exactly 20 years ago this week a team of researchers led by Sir Ian Wilmut successfully cloned Dolly the sheep — the first mammal ever grown in a lab.

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Benefits From Freeze-all Embryo Strategy in Older IVF Patients

Today, a study presented at the Annual Meeting of ESHRE provides strong evidence that freeze-all protocols are indeed associated with significantly improved IVF outcomes—especially in women over 35, a patient group rapidly becoming the largest and most challenging category of infertility patient. The results of the study were presented in Helsinki by Dr Karen Hunter Cohn from Celmatix, a US company working in fertility and women’s health.

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Trying to Conceive? Any Position Will Do – But it Does Help if You Orgasm

When it comes to getting pregnant, any sexual position will do, a leading fertility expert has claimed. And there is no need, as many women believe, to ‘cycle with their legs in the air’ afterwards. Allan Pacey, Professor of Andrology at Sheffield University, who advises couples on how best to conceive made his comments at the ESHRE fertility conference in Helsinki.