One in eight women and one in 10 men in the U.K. have experienced infertility, struggling to get pregnant for at least a year, and almost half do not seek help for the problem, according to a new study.
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Most Fertility Apps Miscalculate the Fertile Window
Fertility websites and smartphone apps vary in how they calculate a woman’s fertile window, and many get it wrong, according to a new study. For example, 78.8% of apps and 75.0% of websites included days after ovulation as part of the fertile window, even though conception is unlikely to occur during that part of a woman’s cycle.
Women With Severe Symptoms of Depression May Have Difficulty Getting Pregnant; It’s Not The Antidepressants
Clinical depression blankets every aspect of a person’s life, from social engagements to meals to work. The illness even reduces a woman’s chance of having a baby, according to a new study by researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine.
Many Fertility Apps, Websites Miss the Mark
Websites and apps that promise to calculate a woman’s most fertile days may often be off base, a new study suggests.
Scientists Successfully Made Sperm Cells From Human Skin Cells
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 6 percent of married women in the US are unable to get pregnant, and about 12 percent of women have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term, regardless of marital status.”What to do when someone who wants to have a child lacks gametes [eggs or sperm]?” one of the researchers in a new study, Carlos Simon from the Valencian Infertility Institute, said in a press statement. “This is the problem we want to address: to be able to create gametes in people who do not have them.”
These Women are More Likely to Have IVF Success
According to a new study done by startup FertilityIQ, women who have more money are often more successful at in vitro fertilizations — an alternative form of creating an embryo in which a male’s sperm and woman’s egg are joined together outside the body.
Endometriosis May Raise Women’s Heart Disease Risk
Women’s risk for heart disease may be increased if they have endometriosis. This is the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Caffeine Intake — Even Dad’s — Linked to Miscarriage
A couple’s risk of miscarriage may rise when the woman or man consumes more than two caffeinated drinks a day in the weeks leading up to conception, a new study suggests. Risk of miscarriage also may increase if the mother-to-be drinks more than two caffeinated beverages daily during the first seven weeks of pregnancy, the researchers found.
Common Chemicals Linked to Endometriosis, Fibroids — and Healthcare Costs
Hormone-disrupting chemicals are everywhere — in plastics, pesticides and makeup — and two of them, phthalates and DDE, have been particularly strongly linked with common female reproductive conditions, such as fibroids.
In a new study, researchers estimate that the problems caused by these two chemicals alone could cost the European Union at least 1.41 billion euros a year, the U.S. equivalent of about $1.58 billion.
Infertility and Metabolic Diseases Are All Related, Reveals Study
Men with fertility problems are at increased risk of developing metabolic diseases such as osteoporosis – that makes bones brittle — or diabetes, warns a new study.