Study finds single mothers who used sperm banks did not suffer any greater social, psychological or emotional problems than a traditional family unit
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Wearing Loose Boxer Shorts and Sleeping Naked Could Boost a Bloke’s Chances of Becoming a Dad
Men should wear boxer shorts not briefs if they want to improve their chances of fathering a child, researchers have found.Sperm quality improved if they also slept naked.
Helping Wounded Vets Start Families
The men and women in our armed forces go where our nation’s leaders direct them, serve in difficult and often dangerous conditions and do so with admirable dedication and professionalism. As a nation, we owe them our freedom. When they are wounded serving their country, we have an obligation to care for them and to strive to make them whole again.
Ebola Survivors Can Carry Virus in Their Sperm ‘For Nine Months’
Survivors of Ebola can carry the virus in their sperm and transmit it sexually for up to nine months, a study has found, prompting questions over the potential spread of the disease on west Africa.
Egg Donors Challenge Pay Rates, Saying They Shortchange Women
In a federal lawsuit, a group of women are challenging industry guidelines that say it is “inappropriate” to pay a woman more than $10,000 for her eggs.
Prenatal Exposure to Fracking Chemicals May Affect Men’s Fertility
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” continues to cause much debate. While some people claim the practice is beneficial for the energy industry, others are concerned about the damage it may be causing to environmental and human health. Now, a new study fuels the latter concern, suggesting that prenatal exposure to chemicals used in fracking may influence a man’s reproductive health in adulthood.
Planned Parenthood Won’t Accept Money for Fetal Tissue
Trying to quell the controversy over its use of fetal tissue, Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday that it would no longer accept reimbursement for the costs of providing the tissue for medical research.
HRT Guidelines Favor Individualized Approach to Menopause
New guidelines for the treatment of menopausal symptoms are giving the green light to hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) for carefully selected women at low risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and breast cancer and who are both bothered by their symptoms and are eager to take HRT.
Do You Really Need That Pelvic Exam
It’s the latest battle over screening: Should healthy women skip annual pelvic exams?A controversial recommendation last year by the American College of Physicians, which represents the nation’s internists, strongly urged that doctors stop routinely performing the invasive exam on women without symptoms and who are not pregnant.
This Baby Surrounded by Syringes Is A Beautiful But Painful Reminder of What IVF Is Really Like
If you’ve ever tried to conceive by undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), then you know the dedication, patience, and resilience that goes into the process.