Women in California and Oregon will soon be able to get hormonal birth control from a pharmacist without a doctor’s visit, thanks to new state laws passed by blue-state legislatures and signed by Democratic governors. Meantime, key Republicans in Congress have taken up the mantle of over-the-counter birth control, partly to weaken the Democratic rallying cry that the GOP is waging a “war on women.”
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New Screening Tool for IVF Embryos Leads to Birth of Healthy Children
New research may potentially improve the chances of success for some women and couples looking to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization.
7 Surprising Things That Can Mess With Your Birth Control Pill
If taken properly, birth control pills are 99.9 percent effective (relieving, right?). But taking them effectively includes timing them right, storing them properly, and making sure your body is clear of other drugs or chemicals that could interact with your hormones and throw your body off whack. With so many things that can have a slight effect, from common medication to everyday foods, it can be hard to tell if we really our taking that pill effectively. If we aren’t, it can be equally difficult to pinpoint where we’re going wrong.
Income, Education Affect Metabolic Risk During Menopause
Several social and lifestyle factors appear to play a role in women’s risk for metabolic syndrome as they experience menopause, according to a Korean cohort study published online December 3 in Menopause.
Canada Just Took A Huge Step For Fertility Treatment
Starting Monday, couples in Ontario will be able to seek government-funded fertility services at 50 clinics across the Canadian province.
Long-term Outcomes of Preventing Premature Menopause During Chemotherapy
Compared with receiving chemotherapy alone, women with breast cancer who also received the hormonal drug triptorelin to achieve ovarian suppression had a higher long-term probability of ovarian function recovery, without a statistically significant difference in pregnancy rate or disease-free survival, according to a study in the December 22/29 issue of JAMA.
With In Vitro Fertilization, Persistence Pays Off, Study Suggests
In their quest to become parents, most infertile couples undergoing in vitro fertilization must grapple with a tough decision: when to call it quits. After three or four unsuccessful embryo transfers, doctors have long assumed that the chances of eventually bringing home a child were dismal.
What Is the Germline?
This year’s annual conference of the Progress Educational Trust, titled ‘From Three-Person IVF to Genome Editing: the Science and the Ethics of Engineering the Embryo’, started with an invigorating talk from Professor Azim Surani, Director of Germline and Epigenomics Research at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.
How It Feels: My Kids Don’t Have my DNA
My twin sons were conceived with the use of an anonymous egg donor because I was diagnosed as infertile. Meaning, my husband and I chose a woman who sorta looks like me, her eggs were retrieved and combined with my husband’s sperm, and the matured embryos were transferred into my uterus.
Other Benefits of Birth Control Pills
You know that birth control pills can keep you from getting pregnant. But the pill can have other benefits, too. One survey found that more than half of women who take birth control pills do so for reasons other than avoiding pregnancy.