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Women Who Fail to Bear Children Twice as Likely to be Hospitalized for Alcoholism

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ISTANBUL – Women who want to become mothers but fail to bear children are at more than twice the risk of being hospitalised for alcoholism as those who succeed, it appears.

Researchers also found the risk of ending up in hospital for other serious psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia was markedly higher in women unable to become pregnant due to infertility.

The academics behind the study, presented at the annual conference of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Istanbul, said their results were “only the tip off the iceberg” because many more would be affected, but not so badly as to need in-patient treatment.

British fertility specialists argued the results were “shocking” evidence that infertility should be classed as a disease, reported the Daily Telegraph.

They said it added weight to the argument that IVF should receive greater public funding, because infertility was a disease in its own right.

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Continued Infertility Treatments Drive Pregnancy Successes

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Women in their 30s and 40s who undergo multiple infertility treatments may be nearly as likely to deliver a baby as women who conceive naturally, according to new research that provides men and women with a more realistic view of their chances of becoming parents.

Until now, the success of in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technology (ART) was based on live births following a single course of treatment, called a cycle. However, researchers for the first time have calculated cumulative success rates for women undergoing several treatment cycles. Among nearly 250,000 U.S. women treated with ART in 2004-2009, 57 percent achieved a live birth, they reported. In addition, 30 percent of all ART cycles were successful, they found.

“This study shows that if you keep at it …your chances of becoming pregnant continue to rise with continuing treatment,” said lead researcher Barbara Luke, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine in Lansing. “The takeaway message from this is you may need to look at infertility treatment over a course of cycles.”

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Failed IVF attempt tied to depression, anxiety

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who are stressed and anxious before in vitro fertilization (IVF) are no less likely to have a baby, new research suggests. But if the treatment fails, it may take a toll on their mental health.

In two separate studies in the journal Fertility and Sterility, researchers found women with anxiety or depression symptoms were just as likely as others to become pregnant.

One study focused on women undergoing IVF and the other followed women trying to conceive naturally.

“Our findings are consistent with the most recent research,” said Lauri A. Pasch, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco Center for Reproductive Health, and the lead researcher on the IVF study.

Based on that body of research, she told Reuters Health, “I think we can safely say to women, “Stop worrying about being worried.”

Women should not feel pressured to be a “good IVF patient” who’s free of stress, Pasch said. And they should not blame themselves if they feel stressed out and their IVF attempt fails.

The other study, from the UK, looked at 339 women who were trying to become pregnant naturally.

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Could Fertility Drugs Make Kids Shorter?

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SATURDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) — For those who need help getting pregnant, the thought of having a child who’s a little shorter than other kids probably won’t be much of a worry. But the question of whether infertility treatment causes unanticipated consequences remains fertile ground for researchers.

In a study scheduled for presentation Saturday at the Endocrine Society annual meeting in Houston, researchers found full-term children conceived with fertility drugs were about one inch shorter than their peers.

The researchers wanted to find out whether there was a difference in height among children whose mothers used only ovarian stimulation by fertility drugs such as Clomid (clomiphene) without in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

Children conceived with the help of ovarian stimulation alone account for about 5 percent of all births in the developed world, according to the researchers.

Previous studies have suggested that children conceived by IVF may be taller than naturally conceived kids. The researchers wanted to know if something in the process of IVF, which includes fertilization and culture of embryos in a laboratory dish, could affect stature. So they studied children conceived without IVF, but with the assistance of fertility drugs that cause ovulation.

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ASRM and SART Respond to ART Linkage Study Published in New England Journal of Medicine

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Leaders of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology reacted today to a new publication in the New England Journal of Medicine.  The article links the annual registry of assisted reproductive technology cycles with individuals to show the overall cumulative success rate of ART procedures to be 57%.

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More Evidence that Obesity may Lower IVF Success

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The odds of having a baby via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) may be lower for obese women than their thinner counterparts, two new studies find.

The studies, reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility, add to evidence suggesting that heavy women have a lesser chance of success with IVF — where a woman’s eggs are fertilized in a lab dish then implanted in her uterus.

Research shows that obese women may be less fertile than their thinner peers. But the evidence has been mixed on whether extra pounds can affect a woman’s odds of having a baby with IVF.

In the new studies, researchers at two different Massachusetts fertility centers found that overweight women were less likely to have a baby after IVF.

In one, the birth rate among both overweight and obese women was 23 percent, versus 42 percent among women at the lower end of the normal-weight range.

In the other study, the odds of success were lower only for obese women, and not those who were less overweight.

Of 477 women who were moderately obese, 22 percent had a baby. That compared with 30 percent of normal-weight women.

And the chances of success dipped with the severity of a woman’s obesity. Among the most obese women — about 100 pounds or more overweight — 15 percent had a baby.

The lead researcher on that study said there are still questions about the role of a woman’s weight in IVF success.

In some past studies, researchers have found that normal-weight and obese women have similar chances of having a baby, said Dr. Vasiliki A. Moragianni, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

But most of those studies were much smaller than this one, he said in an email.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/06/21/more-evidence-obesity-may-lower-ivf-success/#ixzz1yTM5bByc

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Single hormone shot can replace daily doses in IVF: study

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(Reuters) – Women preparing for fertility treatment get a series of daily, sometimes uncomfortable, hormone shots to kick their ovaries into overdrive, but a European review of previous studies suggests that one long-acting shot may work just as well.

In an analysis of four past studies including over 2,300 women with infertility, researchers found the women were just as likely to get pregnant – and didn’t have any more complications – when they got a single, long-acting dose of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).

For in vitro fertilization, extra FSH is used to trigger the ovaries to grow and release multiple eggs, which are then fertilized outside the body and transferred to the uterus.

“Long-acting FSH (weekly injection) is a good and safe alternative to daily injections in the first week of ovarian stimulation for IVF,” said Jan Kremer from Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands, who worked on the study.

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Can Diseases Make You Infertile?

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What is infertility? Well there is no reason to think that you are infertile as you could not conceive just after trying for just a few times. Infertility can be explained as the biological inability to conceive even after trying for a long time. Some diseases cause infertility in both men and women.

In some cases, infertility issues are caused due to the male partner. In other cases it is due the female and in some cases due to both. Infertility is not always caused due poor lifestyle or sexual habits. Here we are listing down some diseases that can cause infertility in you or your partner.

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