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(AP)—German drug company Bayer AG says it has agreed to buy California-based Conceptus for around $1.1 billion to expand the kinds of birth control it offers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-bayer-11b-california-firm.html Medications Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:10:01 EST news286447560 For women with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding during early pregnancy, patient history and clinical examination alone are insufficient to indicate or eliminate the possibility of ectopic pregnancy, while transvaginal sonography appears to be the single best diagnostic method for evaluating suspected ectopic pregnancy, according to an analysis of previous studies reported in the April 24 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-methods-procedures-diagnosis-ectopic-pregnancy.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:54:34 EST news285954867 the surgical tying or severing of fallopian tubes to prohibit pregnancy – have less frequent Pap smears, which puts them at an increased risk for cervical cancer, according to research recently released by a team that included Cara A. Mathews, MD, a gynecologic oncologist at the Program in Women's Oncology at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-connetion-tubal-ligation-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:06:35 EST news277380347 New research shows that the concentration of sperm in men's semen has been in steady decline between 1989 and 2005 in France. In addition, there has been a decrease in the number of normally formed sperm. The study is published online today (Wednesday) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-semen-quality-fell-french-men.html Medical research Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:00:01 EST news273863489 New research from Queen's University Belfast has uncovered the cause of infertility for 80 per cent of couples previously diagnosed with 'unexplained infertility'. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-fresh-couples-unexplained-infertility.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:08:54 EST news272113629 Women whose first pregnancy is ectopic are likely to have fewer children in the following 20-30 years than women whose first pregnancy ends in a delivery, miscarriage or abortion, according to results from a study of nearly 3,000 women in Denmark. In addition, these women have a five-fold increased risk of a subsequent ectopic pregnancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-women-pregnancy-ectopic-children.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:00:01 EST news269712142 (Medical Xpress) -- Could ovulation be the link to ovarian cancer? Joanna Burdette of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy thinks it might be, and she's working to find out. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-ovarian-cancer-linked-ovulation.html Cancer Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:11:03 EST news262365057 (Medical Xpress) -- Having the appendix removed does not affect a woman's chance of having a baby, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Dundee. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-appendectomies-threat-fertility.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:26:06 EST news260605433 Tubal ectopic pregnancy (TEP) is currently the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths during the first trimester and a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) shows that the hormone adrenomedullin (ADM) may help predict this condition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-hormone-tubal-ectopic-pregnancy.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 03 May 2012 04:10:01 EST news255233185 (Medical Xpress) -- The most deadly form of "ovarian" cancer arises in the fallopian tubes – not the ovaries – of knockout mice that lack two genes associated with the disease, said researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-ovarian-cancer-fallopian-tube-knockout.html Cancer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:34:34 EST news248380464 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 Sean Ward, professor of physiology and cell biology, at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, who conducted the study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-caffeine-consumption-female-infertility-link.html Medical research Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:46:44 EST news230384776 Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have discovered a way to block the damaging actions of Chlamydia, the bacteria responsible for the largest number of sexually transmitted infections in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-newly-molecule-blocks-chlamydia-bacteria.html Medical research Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:33:42 EST news230384010 A study presented at SNM's 58th Annual Meeting may provide a new tool for detection of malignant-stage ovarian cancer. Researchers found that positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT), which images both functional and anatomical changes in the body, was useful for preoperative cancer imaging of ovarian masses when used with a radiotracer that is actively metabolized by cells as fuel. Physicians imaging patients suspected of having malignant tumors can see where cancerous cells are hyper-metabolizing the tracer and accurately predict whether a mass is malignant, cancerous but stable, or benign. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-pet-imaging-malignancy-potential-ovarian.html Cancer Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:10:01 EST news226584500