Infertility is consistently listed as one of the most distressing long-term side effects of cancer treatment for adolescents and young adults. Yet the leading National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers — which should be leaders in fertility preservation — aren’t doing an adequate job of helping patients protect their fertility, reports a new Northwestern Medicine- study.
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My I.V.F. Education
When I started the I.V.F. process, I didn’t want to be like the women who come to the fertility clinics with folders full of research on the latest studies about medicines, protocols, supplements and tests.
Identical Triplets, Conceived without Fertility Drugs, are ‘One in a Million’
A Sacramento couple hit the genetic lottery when they welcomed identical triplets, conceived without fertility drugs, last month.
Multiple Births on the Decline, CDC Reports
While fertility treatments in vogue since the early 1970s led to a dramatic increase in multiple births, subsequent reduction in the practice of transferring three or more embryos has caused a drop in births of triplets and higher-order multiples, a national survey showed.
Demand For Fertility Soups, Statues, And Soothsayers Is On The Rise In China
In a dimly-lit arcade in downtown Shanghai, shopkeeper Xia Zihan holds out a glinting, yellow-glass carving of the fertility goddess Guanyin, a range she says is starting to sell well after China relaxed its single-child policy last month.
Fertility Doctors Aim to Lower Rate of Twin Births
In the five years since the “Octomom” case, big multiple births have gone way down, but the twin rate has barely budged. Now fertility experts are pushing a new goal: one.
A Happy Ending to Army Couple’s Infertility Struggles
Even before Marc and Sallie Bailey started their ninth fertility treatment, they knew it would be their last. The couple had spent more than three years and $70,000 trying to conceive. Now they were burning Marc’s military leave to travel 700 miles from Kentucky to New Jersey to work with a private specialty clinic.
My Wife and I are Trying to Get Pregnant. How Do I Improve My Sperm Health?
Focusing on male fertility, there are three things to consider: sperm quantity, quality and motility.
Top 20 Fertility Apps to Help Women Get Pregnant
A large number of fertility medical apps exist to help a woman (even Obstetrician-Gynecologists (Ob/Gyn) themselves) determine how to maximize their ability to get pregnant.
Is Smog to Blame for Shanghai’s Sperm Crisis? Doctors Blame Pollution for Low Fertility Rate
Smog in China’s most populated city is being blamed for a fertility crisis as the incidence of low sperm counts among its men reaches record levels.