A dozen veterans groups and support organizations are rallying behind legislation that would enable the Veterans Affairs Department to offer in vitro fertilization services to veterans with wounds and injuries prevent them from fathering children.
Month: May 2016
Advances in Human Embryo Research Rekindles Ethical Debate
Scientists have been able to make and study human embryos in their labs for decades. But they have never been able to keep them alive outside a woman’s womb for more than about a week.
Control of Fertility: New Player Identified
Individual small RNAs are responsible for controlling the expression of gonadoliberin or GnRH (Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone), a neurohormone that controls sexual maturation, the appearance of puberty, and fertility in adults, new research shows. The involvement of microRNAs, transcribed from DNA, occurs around birth, and marks a key step in postnatal development.
Scientists Successfully Made Sperm Cells From Human Skin Cells
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 6 percent of married women in the US are unable to get pregnant, and about 12 percent of women have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term, regardless of marital status.”What to do when someone who wants to have a child lacks gametes [eggs or sperm]?” one of the researchers in a new study, Carlos Simon from the Valencian Infertility Institute, said in a press statement. “This is the problem we want to address: to be able to create gametes in people who do not have them.”
Ask Well: Exercise Can Impair Fertility
Exercise is good, but too much — as in women who are endurance-distance athletes — can hinder fertility.
PMNCH Progress Report 2015
Publisher/Organizer: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Publication date: February 2016
Number of pages: 68
Language: En
2015 was a landmark year for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and for the
SRMNCAH community. In September – the same month that the Partnership observed the 10th
anniversary of its creation in 2005 to accelerate action on MDG 4 and 5 – the UN General
Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that established global
development priorities for the next 15 years. SDG 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being
for all at all ages) includes new targets for reducing maternal, newborn, under-five mortality and
sexual and reproductive health. Other SDGs address issues of critical importance to the SRMNCAH
community, including education, gender equality, sexual and reproductive rights, nutrition,
governance and accountability, and continued efforts to strengthen development partnerships.
Will the End of IVF Twins Lead to More Fertility Benefits
New figures released by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, or SART, show that twin births from in-vitro fertilization are on the decline. Out of more than 190,000 IVF cycles — an all-time high — 78% of births were singletons, up from nearly 76% for 2013.
Four Things Doctors Wish they Knew about Infertility
About 12 percent of American women of childbearing age have trouble getting and staying pregnant, and about 7.5 percent of sexually experienced men under 44 have seen a fertility doctor, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet despite the fact that infertility is so common, there’s a lot we don’t know about it.
Four Journeys Through Infertility: Where Are They Now
From celebrating the everyday joys of being a new parent, to preparing to adopt another child, to contemplating future pregnancies, four couples who have struggled with infertility are moving forward.