Women who work more than 40 hours a week or routinely lift heavy loads may take longer to get pregnant than women who don’t, a U.S. study suggests.
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Experts Call for Greater Scrutiny of Egg Donation Practices
A new report calls for professional societies to develop guidelines specifically addressing conflicts of interest in oocyte donation and to adopt tougher reporting and advertising standards
Infertility Treatments not Associated with Increased Short-term Cancer Risk
Compared to the general population, women who underwent assisted reproductive technologies (ART) treatments were not at increased risk for developing cancer after approximately 5 years of follow-up.
Study Says Quitting Smoking Can Reduce Hot Flashes in Menopausal Women
Health researchers have recently discerned that women of a particular age who choose to give up smoking can actually get the added benefit of experience fewer hot flashes if they succeed.
6 Myths About Miscarriage
Miscarriage is a heartbreakingly common experience, ending 15 percent to 20 percent of confirmed pregnancies. Although many women experience miscarriage, this loss has often been shrouded in secrecy, and couples often grieve alone.
Are Vasectomies Reversible? 5 Facts You Should Know About The Form of Male Birth Control
It is true that a vasectomy procedure is simpler than female sterilization surgery. It’s an outpatient surgery where a doctor blocks the vas deferens — the tubes that carry sperm from the testicles to other glands, where the sperm mixes with other fluids and become semen, the stuff that comes out when a man ejaculates. A man who has had a vasectomy still ejaculates, but because his vas deferens are blocked, his semen no longer contains sperm, and thus he can no longer get a partner pregnant. And vasectomies are indeed very effective — they have a failure rate of less than one percent.
CT Removes Age Limit for Infertility Treatment Coverage Mandate
Health insurance plans sold in Connecticut will no longer be allowed to limit coverage of medically necessary infertility treatment to people under 40, according to new guidance issued by the Connecticut Insurance Department Thursday.
Parents Sue Doctors for Deciding Their Kid is A Girl
In a first of its kind lawsuit, Greenville, S.C., residents Pam and Mark Crawford are suing the doctors who gave their adopted son sex assignment surgery while in foster care. MC, who had been deemed a female by doctors, had surgery at 16 months to “correct” his status as intersex (having both male and female genitalia), but is struggling with this assigned identity now at 10 years old. His parents are grieving that such a decision was made for him before he was able to make it himself.
Early Egg Harvest May Up Pregnancy Odds for Some
Collecting eggs from older women at an earlier stage for vitro fertilization could improve the chances of pregnancy, researchers report.
Everything We Still Don’t Know About Freezing Human Eggs
In an Era of egg freezing cocktail parties, it’s easy to forget that cryopreservation is, well, a little lacking in the science department.