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Tag: Reproductive Medicine
For Fertility Treatment, Wounded Veterans Have To Pay The Bill
To have children they’d need help: in vitro fertilization. But IVF is expensive, costing, on average, at least $12,000 per cycle of treatment, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. The Pentagon’s health care system for active-duty troops covers IVF for wounded soldiers like Matt Keil. The Department of Veterans Affairs for veterans doesn’t. By the time the Keils learned about the difference, it was too late.
Fertility Clinics to Offer Discounts to Wounded Veterans
Many of the nation’s fertility clinics plan to offer discounts on in-vitro fertilization services to veterans with service-related injuries, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Assisted Reproduction Technology announced Wednesday.
Lack of Age Limit for Government-Funded IVF is Costly and Ineffective, Quebec Study says
Quebec’s experience with publicly funded in-vitro fertilization will be held up as a “cautionary tale” this week at a meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Baltimore, Md.
Howard W, Jones Jr,. A Pioneer of Reproductive Medicine, Dies at 104
Howard W. Jones Jr., a physician who pushed the boundaries of gynecologic surgery, opened the first sex-change clinic in an American hospital and helped achieve the first birth through in vitro fertilization in the United States, died on Friday in Norfolk, Va. He was 104.
Study: Men Also Have Biological Clock When it Comes to Fertility
The belief that women’s age is the only thing that matters when it comes to fertility might be wrong. A study from the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine finds men have a biological clock too.
Confessions of an Infertile Guy
According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the reasons for infertility are pretty much an even split: one-third of the time it’s due to female problems and one-third of the time it’s due to male problems.
Biological Clock Ticking? Egg Freezing Now an Option
Reproductive specialists have frozen the eggs of women facing chemotherapy or radiation for decades. But in 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine essentially endorsed the practice as an elective procedure by declaring that egg freezing was no longer considered experimental. Since then, the egg-freezing business has ramped up at fertility centers across the country.
Ectopic Pregnancy From Assisted Reproduction Keeps Falling Also, no association between ART and offspring’s long-term academic performance
Nikolaos Polyzos, MD, PhD, of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Belgium, and colleagues found that ectopic pregnancies (EP) declined over a period of 12 years following ART (crude odds ratio 0.96 per year, 95% CI 0.95-0.97), even after adjusting for potential confounders (adjusted OR 0.97 per year, 95% CI 0.95-0.98).
Preventing Male Infertility: 12 Natural Ways to Make Healthy Sperm
For about 30 percent of couples struggling with infertility, the cause has something to do with the male’s health, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Even if your guy’s semen analysis results come back normal, there are still things that could be affecting your chances of getting pregnant.