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In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is apt to be more successful in white women than in Asian women, a study suggests. Women of Asian descent were 29 percent less likely than their Caucasian counterparts to become pregnant after IVF, Dr. Karen Purcell of Fertility Physicians of Northern California in San Jose and her colleagues found. Read more [...]
There’s promising hope for women who suffer from endometriosis, one of the most common causes of infertility and pelvic pain. A new study to be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine reveals that Pycnogenol(R) (pic-noj-en-all), an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, significantly reduces [...]
recently discovered substance, kisspeptin, may be able boost fertility in women with low hormone levels, British researchers reported today. Kisspeptin is a hormone named after a brand of chocolate, Kiss, produced in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Scientists at Imperial College, London, say there have been encouraging results from their first tests involving healthy women. The study showed [...]
The review compares success rates between would-be mothers who took glucocorticoids around the time of embryo implantation and those who did not. All of the women underwent one of two types of assisted reproductive technology. In vitro fertilization (IVF) involves removing mature eggs from a woman’s ovary, mixing them with sperm in the laboratory, and [...]
A diet rich on low-fat dairy food may make it harder for some women to conceive, according to a study involving thousands of US women. Harvard researchers found women who frequently ate these foods were 85% more likely to have ovulation problems. In contrast, the Human Reproduction study found eating full-fat dairy foods, including ice [...]
EMILY DAGOSTINO, Staff Writer The immune systems in women with one of the top three causes of female infertility might be mounting attacks against embryos before they implant. Those attacks and pre-existing inflammation from endometriosis could set the stage for infertility. Infertility specialists in Greenville are using a new blood test — the first of [...]
Babies conceived with the aid of fertility treatments are more likely to suffer birth defects, according to a study conducted by Ottawa researchers. In an examination of 61,208 Ontario births from 2005, researchers found that 2.6 per cent of those babies conceived through assisted reproduction had birth defects, compared to 1.9 per cent of those [...]
Metformin, a drug used to treat diabetes and thought to hold great promise at overcoming the infertility associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), is less useful for helping women with the condition achieve pregnancy than is the standard treatment with the infertility drug clomiphene, report researchers in an NIH research network. This study is the [...]
There are no screening guidelines or broadly-accepted screening techniques for identifying ovarian cancer. A new study released by the American Cancer Society shows that a new symptom index may help identify ovarian cancer at an earlier stage. The specific symptoms that are most often associated with ovarian cancer are pelvic and abdominal pain, increased abdominal [...]
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