http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The first randomised trial to compare treatments for ectopic pregnancies has found no significant differences in subsequent fertility between medical treatment and conservative surgery on one hand, and conservative or radical surgery on the other. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-fertility-ectopic-pregnancy-reassuring-evidence.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:00:01 EST news282333072 (HealthDay)—The number of U.S. women using the "morning-after" contraception pill has risen dramatically in the last decade, federal health officials report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-morning-after-pill-cdc.html Health Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:20:01 EST news280073398 (HealthDay)—For women at higher risk for ovarian and/or fallopian tube cancer (OC/FTC), annual screening offers high sensitivity for detection of incident cancers, but few of these cancers are stage I or II, according to research published online Dec. 3 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-strict-ovarian-ca-screening-adherence.html Cancer Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:40:02 EST news273946539 Cigarette smoke reduces the production of a Fallopian tube gene known as "BAD", which helps explain the link between smoking and ectopic pregnancy. The finding, from scientists led by Drs Andrew Horne and Colin Duncan at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Reproductive Health in Edinburgh, UK, was described today at the annual meting of ESHRE (European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) in Istanbul. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-bad-fallopian-tube-ectopic.html Health Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:08:02 EST news260507260 According to a 2003 study by German and American scientists, a component of the Lily of the Valley scent known as Bourgeonal alters the calcium balance of human sperm and attracts the sperm. The "Lily of the Valley phenomenon" – also the title of a book about smelling – was born as a result of this discovery that sperm act as swimming olfactory cells which follow a "scent trail" laid by the egg. However, a detailed explanation for the Lily of the Valley phenomenon remained illusive as neither Bourgeonal nor other scents could be identified in the female sex organ. Scientists from the caesar research centre in Bonn, an Institute of the Max Planck Society, have now discovered that sperm do not function like olfactory cells - a finding that casts doubt on the assumption that scents play a role in fertilisation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-lily-valley-phenomenon-sperm.html Medical research Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:31:25 EST news249647449 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are in the midst of testing a personalized, dendritic cell vaccine in patients with recurrent ovarian, primary peritoneal or fallopian tube cancer – a group of patients who typically have few treatment options. Now, they have shown they can shorten the time to manufacture this type of anti-cancer vaccine, which reduces costs of manufacturing the treatment while still yielding powerful dendritic cells that may be beneficial for these and a variety of other tumor types. The data is published in the December issue of PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-shorten-personalized-ovarian-cancer-vaccine.html Cancer Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:01:24 EST news244105188 Researchers from The Netherlands have found that subfertile women whose ovaries are stimulated into producing extra eggs for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) have an increased risk of ovarian malignancies, in particular borderline ovarian tumours, later in life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ovarian-ivf-treatment-borderline-tumors.html Cancer Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:00:01 EST news238905914 Caffeine reduces muscle activity in the Fallopian tubes that carry eggs from a woman's ovaries to her womb. "Our experiments were conducted in mice, but this finding goes a long way towards explaining why drinking caffeinated drinks can reduce a woman's chance of becoming pregnant," says Professor Sean Ward from the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, USA. Ward's study is published today in the British Journal of Pharmacology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-caffeine-fertility-women.html Medical research Thu, 26 May 2011 03:21:09 EST news225598849