An updated set of clinical practice guidelines for the therapeutic use of androgens in women, revised by an international task force and published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, addresses research on testosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone therapy in women.
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Bro Alert: Too Much Booze May Harm Your Sperm
The more alcohol young men drink, the lower their sperm count and quality may be, new research suggests.
Diet Affects Sperm Competitiveness
It’s well known that omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFA) can help to prevent heart disease but new research has found that these essential fatty acids can also increase the chance of paternity success.
Promiscuity Is Pragmatic: Why Women and Other Female Primates Seek Out Multiple Partners
More than 30 years of subsequent research has confirmed Hrdy’s findings and expanded on them to reveal that females in many primate species, humans included, engage in a diversity of sexual strategies to enhance their overall reproductive success.
Can Cycling Crimp Sex for Men?
With the quiet explosion in popularity of recreational bicycling in the United States, it’s natural that men would wonder about the potential health effects of spending serious time on a bike. Men, research shows, account for almost all the growth in the pastime in the last three decades. A recent study both silences some of the most prevalent fears, which center on sexual dysfunction and infertility, and raises the specter of another. It suggests that prolonged cycling may be linked to higher risks of prostate cancer in men over age 50.
Why Do We Treat Infertility Like It’s Just Rich Women’s Problem?
When Ann V. Bell, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Delaware, started combing through infertility research back in 2008, it didn’t take long for her to notice a pretty gaping hole: The existing infertility literature focused almost exclusively on the experience of affluent white women.
American Men Have Worse Access to Reproductive and Sexual Health Care, Shows Research
Compared with women, American men have worse access to reproductive and sexual health care, research shows, a disparity fueled in part by the lack of standard clinical guidelines on the types and timing of exams, tests and treatments that should be offered to all men of reproductive age.
Sperm Can Carry Dad’s Stress as Well as Genes
New research shows that sperm can carry the effects of a stressed father as well as his DNA
Sound of Actual Ticking Clock Can Speed Up Women’s Attitudes on Reproductive Timing
The metaphor of a ticking clock is often used to refer to a woman’s growing urge – from puberty onwards to menopause – to conceive before her childbearing years are over. New research in Springer’s journal Human Nature shows that there’s more truth to this phrase than you might think. The subtle sound of a ticking clock can quite literally speed up a woman’s reproductive timing.
Synthetic Protein Offers New Hope for Male Infertility
A research team from Queen’s University in Canada, led by Richard Oko, has indentified a method of inducing fertilization using a synthetic version of the protein PAWP found in sperm cells.