Clinical trials underway after scientists in Madrid pioneer technique which homes in on woman’s optimum time for treatment.
Month: March 2015
Hormones May Help Younger Women With Hot Flashes, Study Finds
There’s more evidence that hormone therapy might not be so bad for women just starting menopause.
The latest Cochrane review supports the evidence that taking hormones
does not lower the risk of heart disease for women past menopause.
Cochrane reviews are meant to be authoritative, top-line
recommendations.
Male Infertility Attributed To Physically Intensive Jobs, Hypertension, And Medications
It turns out that, just like women, men also become less fertile as they age, and it’s due in part to certain environmental factors and the man’s own health status.
Letrozole Shows Promise for Treating Infertility in Obese Men
Low-dose letrozole may be an effective treatment for restoring fertility in men with obesity-related hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. The drug also had an interesting safety profile and significant advantages in terms of route of administration, according to a new Canadian study presented at ENDO 2015.
Out of a Struggle With Infertility, Success
“I said, ‘This is what’s wrong with me,’ ” Mr. Johnson recalled telling Ms. Perlman of his diagnosis of Kallmann syndrome, a hormonal disorder that caused delayed puberty and infertility. “When I was a teenager, I was on testosterone therapy, every day, 365 days a year. The doctor had told me at age 13: ‘You’re sterile. Forget about it.’ ”
Drug Helps Breast Cancer Patients Avoid Early Menopause
Breast cancer chemotherapy can trigger an unfortunate side effect for some patients — early menopause. But a new study suggests that adding the drug goserelin to chemotherapy cuts the odds of that happening in women with certain early-stage breast cancers.
Fertility_Clinic_Courts_Controversy_With_Treatment_That_Recharges_Eggs
Her doctor is Dr. Robert Casper, the reproductive endocrinologist who runs the Toronto Center for Advanced Reproductive Technology. He has started to offer women a fertility treatment that’s not available in the United States, at least not yet. The technique was named Augment by the company that developed it, and its aim is to help women who have been unable to get pregnant because their eggs aren’t as fresh as they once were.
Sen. Patty Murray Rolls Out Women’s Health Bill
Eight months after her failed attempt to override a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on contraceptive coverage, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray on Thursday rolled out her latest proposal to protect women’s access to reproductive-health services.
Colorado Debates Whether IUDs Are Contraception Or Abortion
A popular contraception program in Colorado is receiving criticism from conservative lawmakers who say that the program’s use of intrauterine devices, or IUDs, qualify as abortions.
Researchers One Step Closer to Unraveling Complex Processes Crucial to Sperm Development
Researchers are one step closer to unraveling the extraordinarily complex series of processes that leads to an event crucial to human reproduction: the creation of sperm.