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Infertility Treatments: Uncovering New Risks
Jan. 22, 2004 - Babies conceived via assisted reproduction are more likely to be born prematurely as babies conceived naturally, but this is less so in twin pregnancies, a newly published report shows. Although the overall risks of problems at birth is small for single babies conceived using inferti
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Coenzyme Q10 Helps Sperm Movement
Jan. 12, 2004 -- A common antioxidant may help men with problem sperm increase their chances of conceiving a child. A new study shows that daily supplementation with coenzyme Q10 can help improve sperm movement in infertile men. Decreased sperm motility, the percentage of sperm that move forward nor
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ICSI Kids Show No Developmental Delays
Dec. 19, 2003 -- New research offers the most reassuring evidence yet of the normal development of children conceived using an assisted reproduction technique. The study found no developmental delays in preschool-aged kids born to infertile parents who underwent intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICS
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Older Sperm Have More DNA Damage
Dec. 19, 2003 -- As a man ages, his sperm become damaged -- the result of damaged DNA, a new study shows. This new finding could lead to better sperm selection processes in infertility treatment, researchers say. It is well known that female fertility declines with age as a result of impaired egg qu
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Infertility Treatments: More Successful
Dec. 17, 2003 -- It's a miracle: Infertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, resulted in some 40,000 babies, according to a CDC report for 2001. The report summarizes national trends and success rates of assisted reproductive techniques, such as in vitro fertilization -- the most common
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Protect Your Pregnancy Before You Conceive
Thinking about getting pregnant? If so, then you're probably already knee-deep in ovulation predictor kits, temperature charts, and maybe even pregnancy test kits. But while most women are concerned about what happens after they conceive, doctors say more should be thinking about what to do before t
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Fertility Supplement Looks Promising
Nov. 24, 2003 -- FertilityBlend -- a mixture of herbs, vitamins, and minerals -- looks promising to help women get pregnant without the risk of multiple births. FertilityBlend is already available in Europe. Studies there on the main ingredient, chasteberry, have suggested that it helps restore the
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Getting Pregnant Faster
So you've made the big decision -- you're going to start a family! But while you were certain that getting pregnant would be fast and easy, after six months of trying it's just not happening. Could something be wrong? Of course that's always a possibility. But if you are young (between 18 and 34) an
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Long Time to Conceive Can Cause Problems
Oct. 29, 2003 -- Women who take longer than a year to get pregnant are more likely to have low birth weight babies or need a cesarean section. A newly reported Danish study found that women who get pregnant after more than a year of trying were up to twice as likely to require a C-section or have ba
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The Ancient Art of Infertility Treatment
If headlines are any indication of what's hot and what's not, it's easy to believe that infertility treatment is strictly a modern day science, made possible solely through the courtesy of high-tech medicine. But as good as modern science is, many couples trying to get pregnant find themselves turni
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