Fertility

Study of 3 million California births emphasizes need for proactive, coordinated care for families simultaneously impacted by preterm birth and maternal morbidity A quarter of women who have serious maternal complications during childbirth…
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Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study of 736 low-income pregnant women in Illinois found that more than one-third of those who reported thoughts of self-harm did not have elevated levels of depression, according…
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Study compares quality of sleep and fatigue in women with premature ovarian insufficiency receiving hormone therapy with women of the same age with preserved ovarian function CLEVELAND, Ohio (July 15, 2019)--Sleep disturbances are a…
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Credit: L. Symul (EPFL/Stanford) For many women of reproductive age, the most common way of assessing their menstrual health and fertility means regular visits to a gynecologist or another clinician. When it comes to evaluating…
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Credit: Yuimi Hirabayashi (Bihoro Museum) Gaku Kudo of Hokkaido University and Elisabeth J. Cooper of the Arctic University of Norway have demonstrated that early snowmelt results in the spring ephemeral Corydalis ambigua flowering ahead…
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Study examines how intimate relationships, health, and psychological factors affect sexual intimacy and satisfaction in postmenopausal women CLEVELAND, Ohio (July 10, 2019)--The number of women regularly having sex declines with age, and…
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Postdoctoral researcher Caitlin Taylor wins the 2019 Harvey L. Karp Discovery Award Imagine a molecule powerful enough to reconfigure your mind and body -- a molecule that makes your bones and muscles grow, makes your organs behave…
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Pregnant women with migraine have an increased risk of miscarriage, cesarean sections and giving birth to a child with low birth weight; this is shown by a comprehensive register-based study from Aarhus University, Denmark Despite the fact…
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Credit: Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project Africa is projected to be home to nearly 3 billion people by 2100, but rapid population growth will cause widespread environmental degradation unless effective family planning becomes…
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$3 million grant extends 30-year study, one of the longest on premature birthCredit: URI photo KINGSTON, R.I. -- June 25, 2019 -- The stress premature infants experience can carry on throughout their adult life, causing cognitive…
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Large population study finds lower sperm counts and concentrations than in sons of non-smokers Vienna, 25 June 2019: The adverse effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy is well established and associated with several negative neonatal…
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Increased use of treatments using frozen embryos Vienna 25 June 2019: The latest annual data collected by ESHRE from European national registries (for 2016) show another rise in the cumulative use of IVF in the treatment of infertility,…
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Success rates after freezing all embryos for later transfer no better than with fresh transfers Vienna, 24 June 2019: The increasingly popular trend for fertility clinics to freeze all IVF embryos for later transfer has been shown in a…
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Should blastocyst transfer still be encouraged in IVF clinics? Vienna, 24 June 2019: The transfer of embryos cultured for five or six days (instead of two or three) after fertilisation in IVF and ICSI has become routine in many fertility…
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