News Related to Infertility & Reproduction

1. Soy Foods, Sperm Concentration Link?
   

   July 23, 2008 -- Men who eat a lot of soy foods may have a lower sperm concentration than men who don't eat soy foods, according to a new study. But the study, published online in Human Reproduction, doesn't claim that soy foods are to blame for those lower sperm concentrations, most of which were s

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2. Male Infertility Treatment Skips Surgery
   

   July 22, 2008 -- A new treatment for a cause of male infertility may reduce the need for surgery while increasing couples' chances of becoming pregnant. Researchers say varicoceles, a tangled network of dilated or varicose veins in the scrotum, affect 10% to 15% of otherwise healthy men. Varicoceles

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3. Dad's Age Plays Role in Fertility
   

   July 7, 2008 -- A woman's age plays a key role in her ability to get pregnant, but a landmark study now shows that dad's age may be just as important. A study of more than 12,000 couples undergoing fertility treatments has found that pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the father is

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4. Possible to Predict in Vitro Success?
   

   July 1, 2008 -- We've come a long way since the first "test tube" baby was born in 1978. Now, researchers are looking at how to predict whether women will become pregnant from in vitro fertilization. Researchers led by Stanford University Medical Center assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecolo

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5. 1% of Newborns Now Test-Tube Babies
   

   June 20, 2008 -- One in 100 U.S. babies was conceived in a test tube -- and half these babies were twins, triplets, or higher multiple births, the CDC reports. The CDC's most recent data on in vitro fertilization or IVF covers the year 2005. The data come from 422 of the 475 U.S. medical centers tha

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6. Picking the Best Embryo for IVF
   

   May 13, 2008 -- Genetic fingerprinting can find the best embryo in a batch, upping the odds of success for in vitro fertilization with just one implant. In vitro fertilization, or IVF, has two major drawbacks. The first is that the early embryo doesn't always survive implantation into the womb. To o

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7. Acupuncture for In Vitro Fertilization?
   

   Feb. 7, 2008 -- The odds of getting pregnant and having a baby through in vitro fertilization (IVF) may be higher if women get acupuncture right before or after IVF. That's the bottom line from a new review of seven studies on the topic. The findings are "significant and clinically relevant" but "st

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8. Obesity Linked to Infertility in Women
   

   Dec. 11, 2007 -- Obesity is a known risk factor for ovulation problems, but it also contributes to infertility in women who ovulate normally, new research shows. Women in the study who were severely obese were 43% less likely to achieve pregnancy than normal-weight women or women who were considered

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9. Male Infertility Linked to Sperm Gene
   

   Oct. 17, 2007 -- Scientists today announced that they have found a possible genetic cause of male infertility. The discovery may eventually lead to new treatments for male infertility. The researchers studied a gene called JHDM2A in male mice. Without that gene, the mice had few mature sperm, and th

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10. Single Embryo Transfer Cuts Multiples
    

    Oct. 5, 2007 -- Transferring one embryo instead of two or more to minimize the risk of multiple births is a viable option for some infertile women over 35 undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), new research shows. The review included 45 women in their mid-30s or older with good-quality embryos who

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