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Most Fertility Apps Miscalculate the Fertile Window

Fertility websites and smartphone apps vary in how they calculate a woman’s fertile window, and many get it wrong, according to a new study. For example, 78.8% of apps and 75.0% of websites included days after ovulation as part of the fertile window, even though conception is unlikely to occur during that part of a woman’s cycle.

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Women With Severe Symptoms of Depression May Have Difficulty Getting Pregnant; It’s Not The Antidepressants

Clinical depression blankets every aspect of a person’s life, from social engagements to meals to work. The illness even reduces a woman’s chance of having a baby, according to a new study by researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine.

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Scientists Successfully Made Sperm Cells From Human Skin Cells

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 6 percent of married women in the US are unable to get pregnant, and about 12 percent of women have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term, regardless of marital status.”What to do when someone who wants to have a child lacks gametes [eggs or sperm]?” one of the researchers in a new study, Carlos Simon from the Valencian Infertility Institute, said in a press statement. “This is the problem we want to address: to be able to create gametes in people who do not have them.”

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Caffeine Intake — Even Dad’s — Linked to Miscarriage

A couple’s risk of miscarriage may rise when the woman or man consumes more than two caffeinated drinks a day in the weeks leading up to conception, a new study suggests. Risk of miscarriage also may increase if the mother-to-be drinks more than two caffeinated beverages daily during the first seven weeks of pregnancy, the researchers found.

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Common Chemicals Linked to Endometriosis, Fibroids — and Healthcare Costs

Hormone-disrupting chemicals are everywhere — in plastics, pesticides and makeup — and two of them, phthalates and DDE, have been particularly strongly linked with common female reproductive conditions, such as fibroids.
In a new study, researchers estimate that the problems caused by these two chemicals alone could cost the European Union at least 1.41 billion euros a year, the U.S. equivalent of about $1.58 billion.