Many blogs, mom-spots, and pregnancy websites hail yoga and acupuncture as fertility treatments. While yoga and acupuncture are great additions to traditional fertility treatment, unfortunately they don’t increase your chances of getting pregnant. But they can decrease your levels of stress, which can help your success during treatment.
Month: July 2015
Discovery May Improve Embryo Selection For In Vitro Fertilization
Scientists have discovered indicators for chromosomal abnormalities in human embryos created for in vitro fertilization within the first 30 hours of their development, a vast improvement over the five or six days they previously have had to wait.
Contraception Changes Lead to Big Savings
There’s been quite a bit of coverage about the public-health benefits of the ACA provision, but the New York Times reported late yesterday on an even more obvious shift: a lot of Americans are saving a lot of money.
Menopausal Women: Lower Heart Risk Than These Men?
Menopause is commonly considered a risk factor for heart disease, as the protective effect of estrogen declines. However, in a new study, researchers found that postmenopausal women had a lower risk of dying from heart attack than did men of similar ages.
Worried About Low Sperm Count? Here’s What to Do Next
Infertility is on the rise in Australia with one in six Australian couples currently experiencing challenges with falling pregnant. Of the causes of infertility, reduced sperm count (and/or quality) accounts for around one third of cases. One of the questions, then, commonly asked of a GP in relation to difficulties with conceiving is what to do about a low sperm count?
Genetic Test May Help Spot Male Fertility Problems
A new genetic test for sperm could help determine whether a couple should resort to in vitro fertilization to conceive a child, researchers say.
A Same-sex Infertility Health Insurance Mandate in Maryland?
To the surprise of many, in March, the legislature of Maryland passed 2 bills that would amend an outdated health insurance mandate that excluded same-sex couples from coverage for in vitro fertilization treatments.
Effect of Fertility on Perinatal Outcomes
The impact of ART in a fertile setting cannot be studied because otherwise fertile women cannot be randomly assigned to IVF treatment due to ethical concerns. Recent advances in technology, however, could present an opportunity. Couples with proven fertility may elect to undergo preimplantation genetic testing, and the perinatal outcome of these pregnancies could be used to evaluate an unstudied group: fertile women utilizing ART. An adverse impact observed among them could represent the adverse impact of ART itself.
A Key Role for CEP63 in Brain Development and Fertility Discovered
Today in Nature Communications, scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) provide molecular details about Seckel Syndrome, a rare disease that causes microcephaly, or small brain, and growth delays. A joint study conducted by Travis Stracker and Jens Lüders indicates that the protein CEP63 plays a key role during brain development as it is involved in the correct division of stem cells in this organ. Furthermore, the researchers have discovered that CEP63 is associated with sperm production—an unknown function until now.
Confessions of an Infertile Guy
According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the reasons for infertility are pretty much an even split: one-third of the time it’s due to female problems and one-third of the time it’s due to male problems.