A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has detailed the mixed results achieved in trying to tackle different sexually acquired diseases. While the rate of gonorrhoea in the US is now at an all-time low, cases of chlamydia and syphilis are continuing to rise. All three can be easily treated with […]
According to experts, pregnant women are at risk of giving birth to infertile sons if they take painkillers during pregnancy. The scientists say the risk relates to prolonged use of drugs such as paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen, which they believe harms development of male reproductive organs. The warning comes after research carried out in Copenhagen, […]
While still the most populous county in the world, China is now facing an infertility problem. According to experts, 40 million people in China are suffering from infertility, and this is set to rise. Huang Hefeng who is the director of the Zhejiang reproductive medical centre in China believes that the problem is caused by […]
Research has found that men using laptops on their knees will be doing damage to their fertility, even if they use cooling pads. It is an accepted fact that using a hot laptop directly on your lap can increase the temperature of a man’s sperm, even by just a small amount, increasing the chances that […]
A leading surgeon has advised that young females have minute portions of their ovaries frozen in order to avoid difficulties if, when middle aged, they wish to begin a family. Dr Sherman Sibler, who carried out the world’s first whole ovary transplant in 2007, said that this technique has the potential to give a woman […]
The process used by at-home tests to assess infertility may not be the most apt means for identifying female infertility, a new study has suggested. According to a University of North Carolina study, the cut-offs used by these tests that determine the intensity of a molecule, Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH), might label some women as […]
The reasons behind infertility often differ from one person to the next, with many factors such as age, hormones and body composition considered. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have suggested that blood type plays a part in this. Said it has been discovered that women who have the blood type O were […]
The results of research carried out at the Sree Chitra Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology in Trivandrum, India confirm that there is a connection between epileptic women and infertility. According to one representative of the Sree Chitra Institute, this could be the first time that it has been demonstrated that epileptic women who intend […]
Infertile women who have tried every possible method at conceiving and carrying a baby full term may find success in the form of a womb transplant. Womb transplants could become the next major infertility treatment, according to Swedish scientists from the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. The team has successfully tested a womb transplant procedure […]
Test tube baby innovator, Robert Edwards, was recently awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of research that has since revolutionised attempts in dealing with infertility across the globe. Awarding Mr Edwards with 10 million Swedish Kroner (€1.08 million), the Nobel committee reported that his accomplishments “have made it possible to […]