By Miranda Wood Health Reporter
March 26, 2006
ASIAN women put off having children for much longer than their non-Asian counterparts because they feel and look younger, Australian research has revealed.
IVF Australia's clinical director and study co-author Andrew Kan said that Asian women were markedly older than Caucasian patients when they first sought fertility treatment.
"There is a [...]
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26 March 2006
By DEIDRE MUSSEN
Women who want to delay having babies until their thirties are being urged to think again after stunning new research which reveals that infertility rates nearly double after the age of 26.
That’s almost 10 years earlier than the age women have been told they may start having problems conceiving.
It has sparked [...]
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by John C. Martin
Article Date: 03-24-06
In a study that could shed new light on some of the causes of male infertility, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have uncovered new information about the mechanisms underlying sperm motility, or movement ability.1
Tail-Snapping Mechanism
The scientists described a key component discovered in their study that sperm use to [...]
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Infertility is a growing problem in our society. The number of embryo transfers performed in Europe (the last human-controlled step of the in-vitro fertilisation technique) increased by 8% between 1999 and 2003. Recent studies confirm this rising trend.
Despite the advances in IVF and other assisted reproduction technologies (ART), only 25% of embryo transfer attempts will [...]
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Many women with fertility problems could have a significantly better chance of having a baby if modern IVF techniques are combined with more traditional surgical interventions, according to a leading fertility specialist.
Mr TC Li, Honorary Professor at Sheffield Hallam University, says that surgical techniques should be used alongside IVF more often, especially for women who [...]
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Researchers in Australia suggest that small nerve fibres detected in the functional layer in all women with endometriosis may have important implications for understanding why pain occurs in these patients.
Tokushige et al prepared histological sections of endometrial tissue from endometrial curettings and hysterectomies performed on women with endometriosis (n=25 and n=10, respectively) and without endometriosis [...]
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Mike Waites
More than a million women suffer from endometriosis but it remains a condition which is misdiagnosed and misunderstood, according to campaigners.
A poll of more than 3,500 sufferers by the National Endometriosis Society found the delay between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis is a staggering 11 years while the time between consulting a GP [...]
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