Infertile women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) may be less likely to give birth if they use frozen eggs from donors instead of fresh donor eggs, a new study finds.
Month: August 2015
China’s Retro In Vitro Rules Spark Debate
In China, as elsewhere, celebrity gossip and public policy tend not to intersect. The boundary dissolved late last month, however, when Xu Jinglei, a popular (and single) 41-year-old actress, explained in an interview that she had traveled to the United States in 2013 to freeze nine of her eggs. Although she could have had that procedure performed in China, she wouldn’t have been permitted, as long as she wasn’t married, to have those eggs implanted for a pregnancy.
IVF: Do Children Have the Right to Know if They’re The Result of a Stranger’s Sperm or Egg Donation?
Although she has two half-sisters from her dad’s previous marriage, there was nothing in Jess Pearce’s childhood to make her doubt her biological origins. She tanned, her father tanned; he was tall, so was she. Yet when she was 28, her mother dropped a bombshell.
Join The Crowd: Crowdfunding For Fertility Treatments
From presidential Missy Elliott tracksuits to crystal bacon sculptures, the crowdfunding world has seen its share of out-there efforts, but there’s plenty of real-life stuff going on, too.
Case in point: the growing popularity of using crowdfunding platforms to fund fertility treatments—from endometriosis surgery to IVF to egg freezing. (Currently, there are more than 130 such campaigns on GoFundMe alone, and more than 160 on YouCaring.)
How One Doctor Tried for 30 Years to Bring Clarity to the Abortion Conversation
Howard W. Jones Jr. was expecting controversy.But not this controversy.Jones was pioneering the developing science of in vitro fertilization in the United States. He and his wife, Georgeanna Jones, one of the nation’s first specialists in reproductive hormones, had retired from Johns Hopkins University in 1978. They moved to Norfolk, Va., the next year and were trying to start a clinic at Eastern Virginia Medical School to help couples struggling to conceive.
Title X: The Lynchpin Of Publicly Funded Family Planning In The United States
The Title X national family planning program was created 45 years ago with broad bipartisan support. Today, Congress has Title X—still the only federal grant program dedicated entirely to family planning and related preventive health care—in its sights for severe funding cuts or even elimination.
Casual sex and Various Partners Are keys on How Men Could Improve Sperm Quality
Advocates of faithfulness in marriage must have a busy week on the first weekend of August with two papers out that push for extramarital affairs. On Thursday, a British think tank just supported decriminalisation of prostitution to provide intimacy to sex-starved males, while on the same day, an Ohio study suggested multiple partners in casual sex encounters for men.
Mutations That Cause Infertility Detected Through New Genotyping Strategy
Cornell researchers have developed an experimental strategy to identify infertility-causing mutations found in human populations. These mutations are known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, and are the most common type of genetic variation among people. Each SNP represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a nucleotide.
The Contraceptive Pill has ‘Prevented 200,000 Cases of Cancer’
New research by Oxford University suggests that oral contraceptives reduce the risk of womb cancer. The contraceptive Pill has helped to prevent 200,000 cases of womb cancer over the last ten years, according to Oxford University researchers.
Processed Meats May Affect Male Fertility, Study Shows
Attention, men: Your favorite meats might be affecting your fertility, a new study suggests. While the research can’t prove cause and effect, it shows that men involved in fertility treatment who ate a lot of processed meats — bacon, sausage and the like — had poorer success, while those who ate more chicken or other poultry had better outcomes. “Many studies have shown that diet can affect human fertility, but our diets are so complex that it is difficult to tease out how particular food types may affect reproductive outcomes,” Dr. Rebecca Sokol, president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said in a society news release.