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Shorter Needles, Less Pain for Fertility Patients.
Dec. 21, 2000 -- As if the heartache, the cost, and the time spent in clinics were not enough, couples going through fertility treatments have had to deal with the pain and inconvenience of intramuscular injections of drugs as well. Through developments in biotechnology, women going through fertilit
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Is Spring the Best Season for In Vitro Fertilization?
Oct. 31, 2000 -- In nature, some animals tend to give birth in the spring. Do humans have similar seasonal variations in fertility and birthing? An Israeli study shows that fertilization rates do vary by the seasons of the year in some women undergoing in vitro fertilization. "This observation sugge
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Secondhand Smoke May Affect Women's Fertility
Oct. 2, 2000 -- Even if a woman doesn't smoke, just being around a spouse, friend, or co-worker who does could significantly lower her chances of being able to get pregnant. Many different conditions affect fertility, in both men and women. Smoking lowers a woman's fertility by about 20%, while men
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Rest Improves Success of Artificial Insemination
Sept. 5, 2000 -- There's good news from Canada for millions of couples trying to have a baby. For the first time -- as suspected by many women and doctors -- evidence shows that a short period of rest after artificial insemination has been shown to increase the chance of pregnancy, according to a re
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Fertility Treatment vs. the Biological Clock
Sept. 1, 2000 -- If you're in your thirties and plan to wait to get pregnant until after you've bought a house, finished your PhD, or secured that corner office, you may want to rethink your strategy. For the would-be mother who waits until she's close to 40 to try to get pregnant, it might be diffi
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Young Men and Hodgkin's Disease: Preserving Their Future
Aug. 28, 2000 -- The survival rate for Hodgkin's disease, one of the most frequent cancers during the reproductive years, is improving. So why is this disease still creating fear among most men who are diagnosed with the condition? According to a study in the journal Annals of Oncology, researchers
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Are You Ready for Pregnancy
The night before I went into labor, I came down with a severe case of jitters. My husband held me close as I sniveled my fears into his shoulder. Would I be a good mother? Did I know how? Would I learn before doing irreparable harm to my helpless baby? My trepidations followed into the hospital. At
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Getting Pregnant Can Be Harder Than It Looks
Nancy Karabaic and her husband Chris LaChat of Wheaton, Md., are self-professed "late bloomers." They courted for five years before deciding to tie the knot, but they never expected the pattern to follow them into parenthood. It did. They tried to conceive a baby for a full three years before Karaba
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Infertility Tests Every Aspect of a Couple's Life
Patti Gellman rode a physical and emotional roller coaster for two years trying to get pregnant for the first time. What she and her husband, Alex, thought would be a simple act of love to produce a child turned into a highly medicalized journey of poking, prodding, discomfort and -- perhaps the har
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Should Women Get Paid for Donating Their Eggs?
Aug. 8, 2000 -- Should women be offered a financial incentive for donating their eggs to infertile couples? In a new report, an American Society for Reproductive Medicine ethics committee says yes -- but the amount should not be so great that it clouds a woman's judgment and blinds her to the potent
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