Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine disorders in adolescent and adult women, and importantly has both reproductive and metabolic consequences. However, PCOS is likely underdiagnosed, especially in adolescent patients.
Month: December 2013
Let Me Keep My Dead Husband’s Sperm
A woman has begun a legal bid to prevent her dead husband’s frozen sperm from being destroyed.
Mother-Daughter Dynamics During Infertility
by S. Fenella Das Gupta, Ph.D., Neuroscience
Daughters often need their mothers when struggling with infertility and while many daughters are able to turn to their parent for support, others are not. In fact, the complexities of mother- …
Demand For Fertility Soups, Statues, And Soothsayers Is On The Rise In China
In a dimly-lit arcade in downtown Shanghai, shopkeeper Xia Zihan holds out a glinting, yellow-glass carving of the fertility goddess Guanyin, a range she says is starting to sell well after China relaxed its single-child policy last month.
Fertility Doctors Aim to Lower Rate of Twin Births
In the five years since the “Octomom” case, big multiple births have gone way down, but the twin rate has barely budged. Now fertility experts are pushing a new goal: one.
Bowel Resection for Endometriosis Restores Fertility in Many Women
Pregnancy occurred in more than half of infertile women who had a segmental laparoscopic bowel resection for endometriosis.
Scientists Hail Male Contraception Breakthrough
Researchers in Australia believe they may be on the verge of developing a viable male contraceptive that does not adversely affect the long-term health of sperm or an individual’s sex drive.
New EMD Serono Spin-off Will Focus on Infertility Treatments
EMD Serono Inc., a Rockland-based biopharmaceutical company with nearly 900 employees in Massachusetts, announced Monday the launch of TocopheRx, a Boston spin-off company that will focus on infertility treatments.
The Unregulated Sperm Industry
The new movie “Delivery Man” stars Vince Vaughn as a former sperm donor who finds out that he has more than 500 children. Is this a Hollywood exaggeration or a possible outcome? Truth is, no one knows. In the United States, we do not track how many sperm donors there are, how often they donate, or how many children are born from the donations.
A Happy Ending to Army Couple’s Infertility Struggles
Even before Marc and Sallie Bailey started their ninth fertility treatment, they knew it would be their last. The couple had spent more than three years and $70,000 trying to conceive. Now they were burning Marc’s military leave to travel 700 miles from Kentucky to New Jersey to work with a private specialty clinic.