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(HealthDay)—Public funding of assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments, broadens the range of couples who seek treatment for infertility by attracting a more diverse population, according to new research from Canada. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-funding-spurs-couples-fertility-treatment.html Health Thu, 16 May 2013 03:56:48 EST news287895401 (HealthDay)—Women who are undergoing fertility treatment may be more likely to conceive if they get a good amount of protein in their diets, a small new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-high-protein-low-carb-diet-boost-fertility.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 06 May 2013 16:30:01 EST news287075550 Problems in accessing donor sperm and eggs at home appear to be behind a reported increase in the number of UK citizens who seek fertility treatment abroad, despite the fact that this is widely seen as risky. Now, a team of academic experts, including a University of Huddersfield professor, have investigated the phenomenon and analysed the attitudes of health professionals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-overseas-fertility-treatment.html Other Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:31:46 EST news282994299 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 Fertility treatment has a strong emotional impact on women who want to have children. A study of European countries with the highest number of assisted reproduction cycles identifies which aspects of reproduction treatment contribute to psychological stress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-treatment-stress-women-fertility-therapy.html Health Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:19:52 EST news268481979 The British public are being consulted on the ethics of a fertility treatment that uses DNA from a third parent to help eliminate genetic diseases, the government announced on Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-three-parent-babies.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:32:46 EST news267085959 A survey of women seeking fertility assistance to become pregnant found most did not know which days of the menstrual cycle they were fertile and most likely to conceive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-crucial-pregnancy.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:19:41 EST news265879174 (HealthDay) -- For healthy nulliparous women, the ability to predict spontaneous preterm birth (SPTB) using clinical characteristics is modest, according to a study published online July 16 in PLoS One. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-modest-preterm-birth-clinical-features.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:50:02 EST news262500216 A large international study led by University of Adelaide researchers has found that women who use marijuana can more than double the risk of giving birth to a baby prematurely. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-marijuana-premature-birth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:00:09 EST news261756575 Women with a higher intake of dietary saturated fats have fewer mature oocytes available for collection in IVF, according to results of a study from the Harvard School of Public Health funded by the US National Institutes of Health. The study investigated the effect of dietary fat (classified as total, saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, omega 6, omega 3 and trans) on a range of preclinical and clinical outcomes in women having IVF. Results showed that the intake of saturated fat was inversely related to the number of mature oocytes retrieved, while polyunsaturated fat consumption was inversely associated with early embryo quality.(1) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-high-intake-dietary-fats-birth.html Other Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:20:01 EST news260507187 The state funding of fertility treatment through public reimbursement policies has a direct influence on national birth rates. Lower levels of reimbursement are correlated with higher unmet needs for treatment, while more generous reimbursement policies increase access to treatment and may even make a measurable contribution to national birth rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-higher-reimbursement-positively-national-birth.html Other Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:32:25 EST news260422336 New long-lasting weekly injections of fertility hormones are as safe and effective as standard daily injections, according to Cochrane researchers. The researchers compared weekly and daily hormone injections in a Cochrane systematic review and found no difference in pregnancies or serious side effects between the two regimens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-weekly-fertility-daily.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:00:06 EST news258745420 An overwhelming majority of South Australians would rather see spare embryos used and not discarded, a Flinders University study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-solution-embryos.html Other Thu, 17 May 2012 08:41:39 EST news256462889 (AP) -- More than three decades after Britain produced the world's first test-tube baby, Europe is a patchwork of restrictions for people who need help having a child. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-fertility-treatment-europe-criticism.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:23:28 EST news253509793 (Medical Xpress) -- One-in-four women with a history of infertility can still end up having a baby without treatment, a new study from The University of Queensland (UQ) shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-infertile-women-longer.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:31:20 EST news248941867 Although women over age 50 who become pregnant via egg donation are at an elevated risk for developing obstetrical complications, their complication rates are similar to those of younger recipients, according to a study by Columbia University Medical Center researchers to be published in the February 2012 issue of the American Journal of Perinatology. This is contrary to epidemiological data suggesting that these women are at greater risk of certain complications of pregnancy, including hypertension, gestational diabetes, premature birth, and placenta abnormalities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-pregnancy-egg-donation-similar-women.html Health Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:18:49 EST news247249112 A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better odds of having a baby than those who get just two embryos. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-odds-embryos-ivf.html Other Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:40:02 EST news245560990 (Medical Xpress) -- Fourteen states now mandate partial or comprehensive health insurance coverage of fertility treatment. These mandates have resulted in more women using assisted reproductive technologies (ART). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-states-fertility-treatment-coverage-births.html Health Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:06:18 EST news238403166 Women with polycystic ovary syndrome are more likely to have problems with pregnancy regardless of whether they are undergoing fertility treatment, claims new research published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-women-polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pregnancy.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:30:02 EST news237733241 Ovarian stimulation undertaken by women of advanced maternal age receiving fertility treatment may be disrupting the normal pattern of meiosis -- a critical process of chromosome duplication followed by two specialized cell divisions in the production of oocytes and sperm - and leading to abnormalities of chromosome copy numbers that result in IVF failure, pregnancy loss or, more rarely, the birth of affected children with conditions such as Down's syndrome, which is caused by the inheritance of three copies of chromosome 21. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-ovarian-chromosome-abnormalities.html Other Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:29:05 EST news229080528 Australian researchers have made the significant discovery that loss of a twin during very early pregnancy explains the increased risk of birth defects seen in multiple pregnancies after infertility treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-twin-birth-defects.html Other Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:23:17 EST news229080186 Women undergoing fertility treatment are more likely to give birth to a live baby after ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) if they are younger than 38 and 11 or more eggs have been retrieved from their ovaries in one ovarian stimulation cycle, according to analysis of one of the largest and longest-running ICSI programs at a single fertility clinic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-birth-icsi-trimester-pregnancy-loss.html Medical research Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:20:00 EST news229079990 Professor William G. Kearns told the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that a three-day-old embryo (called a cleavage stage embryo) with an incorrect number of chromosomes (known as "aneuploidy") was capable of undergoing "a dynamic process of genetic normalisation" so that by day five, when it had developed to the blastocyst stage, it had become euploid, with the correct number of chromosomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-early-embryos-genetic-abnormalities.html Genetics Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:01:09 EST news229078854 Ovarian stimulation undertaken by women of advanced maternal age (over 35 years) receiving fertility treatment may be disrupting the normal pattern of meiosis – a critical process of chromosome duplication followed by two specialised cell divisions in the production of oocytes and sperm – and leading to abnormalities of chromosome copy numbers (aneuploidy) that result in IVF failure, pregnancy loss or, more rarely, the birth of affected children with conditions such as Down's syndrome, which is caused by the inheritance of three copies of chromosome 21 (trisomy 21). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-ovarian-oocyte-chromosome-abnormalities.html Other Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:55:36 EST news228966887 The Guide aims to ensure high-quality assisted reproduction treatment as defined by the European Union criteria for good quality medical treatment and the ESHRE position paper on Good clinical treatment in Assisted Reproduction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-eshre-standards-cross-border-reproductive.html Other Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:21:12 EST news222510062