Rates of secondary infertility are difficult to pin down, because couples often feel guilty seeking treatment when they already have a child, or they are told that their previous fertility proves that nothing is wrong.
Month: July 2013
Test Tube Baby Louise Brown Turns 35
Louise Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby, was born 35 years ago today, revolutionizing the field of reproductive medicine and giving infertile women hope that they could become mothers.
An Infertile Blonde
By Becky Fawcett
I’m infertile. Seriously infertile. Infertile to the tune of 5 rounds of IVF in my early 30s, 3 pregnancies, and 3 miscarriages. One at 16 weeks, one at 12 weeks and one at 10 weeks. Infertile to …
Increased Infertility Topic of Conference
Human infertility is bound to grow around the world as more and more contaminants make their way into the environment, warns the co-chairman of an international conference on reproductive science being held in Montreal this week.
Obamacare’s Confusing Birth Control Rules
Listen to the political rhetoric around the contraception mandate, and you might think that employers must provide women with free birth control of every kind.
WHI Trialists Pan Hysterectomy Analysis
An analysis asserting that thousands of women have died because they avoided estrogen therapy oversimplifies issues raised by the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study and highlights the limitations of subgroup analyses, WHI investigators told MedPage Today.
For the Healthiest Baby, Summer Is the Best Time to Conceive, Study Says
It almost seems like a mystical correlation. Babies conceived at certain times of the year appear healthier than those conceived during other times. Now, scientists have shown that the surprising impression may actually be true — and they think they may know why it happens.
Judge Grants Summary Judgment to Wyeth in HRT Breast Cancer Case
A federal judge in Philadelphia has granted summary judgment to Wyeth. Pharmaceuticals and other drug companies named in a products liability complaint by a Nevada woman who alleged her breast cancer was caused by hormone replacement therapy products manufactured by the defendants.
Future Blindness Cure? Stem Cell Success in Lab
Scientists are one step closer to curing blindness, after they carried out the first successful transplant of light-sensitive photoreceptor cells from a synthetic retina that was grown from embryonic stem cells.
‘Female’ X Chromosome May Play Part in Sperm Production
Researchers have made the surprising finding that the “female” X chromosome may have an important function in sperm production.