Stress is just one of many obstacles to pregnancy, but it’s one you can control.
By Alice D. Domar, PH.D.
Newsweek International
Oct. 4 issue - Melissa was 33 when I met her, and she’d been trying to get pregnant for more than two years. Fertility tests had found nothing wrong with her or her husband. Yet all [...]
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What’s normal, what’s not—and what a woman’s period may reveal about her health.
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By Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert
Newsweek
Updated: 1:02 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2006
Jan. 31, 2006 - Maybe you grew up calling it Aunt Flo. Perhaps you referred to it as “my friend.” But despite references that imply familiarity, most of us don’t really [...]
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By Raina Kelley
Newsweek
July 4 issue - Three years ago, Leslie Bienen, a veterinarian from Missoula, Mont., easily became pregnant with her first child, a boy she named Pel. Now 39 and ready for her second child, Bienen isn’t taking any chances. After seven months of trying, she saw a reproductive endocrinologist who started her on [...]
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Roselyn Dinsay
ENDOMETRIOSIS is the third leading cause of gynecologic hospitalization in the United States, but its etiology is not clear. While there is strong circumstantial evidence that it is influenced by hormones, a clear temporal relation with menstrual cycle characteristics has not been established.To clarify the association between reproductive factors and endometriosis, Missmer et al [...]
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By Michelle Edelbaum
Free Press Staff Writer
April 9, 2006
Infertility is tough to deal with — whether you’re going through it or someone you care about is. At times, trying to navigate a conversation can feel like you’re walking an emotional tightrope.
Debra Clifton is all too familiar with the awkward and sometimes painful dance that friends, family [...]
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EMMAUS, Pa. (CP) - Loading up on produce instead of meat at the market may slash women’s risk of endometriosis, the painful migration of uterine lining into the abdomen and a major cause of infertility, reports Prevention magazine.
Italian researchers who studied 1,000 women, half with endometriosis, found that eating two servings of fruit and two [...]
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Thursday , April 06, 2006
By Daniel J. DeNoon
Women who undergo ovary removal before menopause may have an increased risk of dementia, a Mayo Clinic study suggests.
“What we are talking about is still-fertile women, finished with having children, who have some event that leads to surgery to remove their uterus, and the surgeon removes one or [...]
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Welcome to the new and improved Endometriosis and Fertility Resource Page! It was once known as the EndoPhil Resource Page, but we have taken steps to make it even better, now on our very own website.
This resource page has been set up to collate the latest news on endometriosis, fertility, infertility, medications and medical procedures. It is also a source of basic facts and hopes to bust myths of human reproduction.
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