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Women with unintended pregnancy are four times more likely to suffer from postpartum depression at twelve months postpartum, suggests a new study published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-women-unintended-pregnancy-postpartum-depression.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 07 May 2013 19:00:02 EST news287161457 Pregnant women who experienced financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery had an increased chance of having a stillbirth, say researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health network study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-stressful-life-events-stillbirth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:51:52 EST news283603872 Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have identified what may be a major factor behind the increased risk of two adverse outcomes in pregnancies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Two papers published in the journal Fertility and Sterility support the hypothesis that extremely high estrogen levels at the time of embryo transfer increase the risk that infants will be born small for their gestational age and the risk of preeclampsia, a dangerous condition that can threaten the lives of both mother and child. They also outline a protocol that reduced those risks in a small group of patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-extremely-high-estrogen-underlie-complications.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:03:40 EST news281019802 In 2010, almost 50 million couples worldwide were unable to have a child after five years of trying. Infertility rates have hardly changed over the past 20 years, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-global-infertility-unchanged-decades.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:01:18 EST news275072466 (Medical Xpress)—Women whose first pregnancy ends in abortion are more at risk of having a premature baby in a second pregnancy than women in their first pregnancy. However, the risk is not as high as that of women who have an initial miscarriage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-insights-abortion.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:50:07 EST news266057338 Although the first successful preservation of fertility from the freezing, thawing and grafting of ovarian tissue was reported eight years ago,(1) the technique has remained experimental and confined to a few specialist centres. Now, with the announcement of a first pregnancy (and subsequent live birth) in Italy following the transplantation of ovarian tissue, there are indications that fertility preservation is moving into the mainstream of reproductive medicine and into a greater number of centres.(2) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-fertility-cryopreservation-ovarian-tissue-experimental.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:35:02 EST news260591695 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 An article published in F1000 Biology Reports discusses recent important advancements in the development of alternative methods of embryo evaluation and selection that could lead to improvements in the reliability of IVF treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-day-window-successful-pregnancy.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:14:31 EST news258714795 New research confirms that successful pregnancies are common for female liver transplant recipients. The study appearing in the June issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, found miscarriage risk was lower and the live birth rate higher among women following liver transplantation than in the general U.S. population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-successful-pregnancies-women-liver-transplantation.html Other Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:59:50 EST news258285583 Freezing eggs or ovarian tissue for the sole purpose of delaying childbearing for social reasons may prove too costly for society, according to a recent analysis by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-childbearing.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:40:42 EST news250951220 (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 In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that indicate that duration of stay in the United States is associated with increased risk of preterm birth for Hispanic women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-residence-factor-preterm-birth.html Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:33:56 EST news247984427 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 A new study recently published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that the ability to successfully carry a pregnancy after kidney transplantation is very high, with 73.5% live birth rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-successful-pregnancy-kidney-transplant.html Other Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:23:05 EST news238328532 Researchers have found the first, firm evidence that fibroids are associated with recurrent miscarriages. They have also discovered that if they removed the fibroids that distorted the inside of the womb, the risk of miscarriage in the second trimester of pregnancy was reduced dramatically – to zero. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-fibroids-distort-womb-cavity-recurrent.html Other Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:41:39 EST news236400088 Further evidence of how maternal characteristics can influence the development of children born after in vitro fertilization was presented to the annual conference of the European Society of Human Fertilization and Embryology today. A study of all 8941 IVF children born in Sweden between 2002 and 2006 where only one baby was born as a result of a single pregnancy showed that maternal age, primiparity, smoking, maternal infertility and body mass index, both over and underweight, were associated with an adverse perinatal outcome. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-factors-affecting-obstetric-outcomes-ivf.html Other Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:30:18 EST news229080578 The researchers studied the records of 987 women with a minimum of three consecutive miscarriages, who had been referred to a specialist RM clinic between 1986 and 2008. Using data from the National Danish Birth Register they were able to see how many of the women had achieved a live birth after referral to the clinic. They also looked at the impact of maternal age at the time of referral, and the number of previous miscarriages as prognostic markers for future live births. The ages of the women at referral to the clinic ranged from 20 to 46 years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-term-prognosis-life-birth-rm.html Other Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:21:35 EST news229080061 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 Women who suffer from unexplained recurrent miscarriage (RM) need to know how long it might take them to achieve a live birth if they are not to lose hope and give up trying for a baby. There is currently no evidence-based treatment for RM, and therefore accurate counseling on the chances of achieving a live birth is essential, a Dutch researcher told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Monday). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-women-recurrent-miscarriage-good-chance.html Health Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:06:48 EST news229079165 Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta, so that many more patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood disorders can be treated with these valuable cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-device-harvest-stem-cells-umbilical.html Medical research Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:12:49 EST news227790749 An analysis of over 400,000 IVF cycles in the UK has shown that doctors should aim to retrieve around 15 eggs from a woman's ovaries in a single cycle in order to have the best chance of achieving a live birth after assisted reproduction technology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-eggs-birth-ivf.html Other Wed, 11 May 2011 03:48:13 EST news224304463 With new information available, authors of a Cochrane Systematic Review have revised their conclusions about the relative effectiveness of two different treatments used to help women become pregnant. They now conclude that giving women gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists leads to similar live-birth rates compared with GnRH agonists. Previously they had concluded that women who used antagonists tended to have lower birth-rates than those using agonists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-fertility-treatment-safer-drug-women.html Medications Wed, 11 May 2011 03:38:29 EST news224303777