Children born from in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments have shown a higher risk of developmental problems, but what is …
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Family MattersInfertility
Are Fertility Financers Productive or Predatory?
Businesses that dole out loans to infertile couples to help them pay for treatment are springing up around the country. But in some cases, fertility doctors are part owners
Family MattersInfertility
Baby Contest: Couples Compete for Free IVF — Is This Exploitation or Generosity?
Last week, the Sher Fertility Institute selected three couples out of 45 who had submitted personal, emotionally wrenching videos in order to win a free IVF cycle. For one judge, choosing her favorites felt like “playing God”
Could a Fertility Gene Discovery Lead to New Male Contraception?
University of Edinburgh researchers say they’ve identified a gene crucial to sperm development that could be a target for a new form of male birth control.
The Link Between Infertility Treatments and Birth Defects
A new study seeks to answer a longstanding chicken-or-egg question: do infertility treatments raise the risk of birth defects, or is the risk linked to infertility itself?
Family MattersParenting
Most Young Women with Cancer Don’t Try to Preserve their Fertility
Just 4% of women of childbearing age with cancer take steps to mitigate the risks of infertility inherent in many treatments.
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How a Fertile Woman Affects the Way Men Talk
Men who strike up a conversation with a fertile woman are less likely to match her sentence structure. Researchers say it’s an effort to be “non-conforming” in the quest to land a mate.
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Why a New IVF Technique Won’t Help Boost Pregnancy Rates in the U.S.
British researchers have developed an embryo-incubating system that they say improves odds of conception by 27%. But larger fertility clinics in the U.S. are already ahead of the game.
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I’ll Take a Sperm Test, to Go: First At-Home Male-Infertility Test Debuts
Why should women bear the brunt of infertility testing? A new at-home sperm-analysis test allows men to assess their babymaking abilities.
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Gingrich Wants Scrutiny of IVF Clinics: Why That’s Not the Worst Idea
When IVF creates excess embryos, women are faced with a choice: store them indefinitely, donate them to others or offer them to research.
Are Wi-Fi-Enabled Laptops Really Frying Your Sperm?
On the whole, I’m assuming that studies in the academic journal Fertility and Sterility — which include chart-toppers like “Are varicoceles associated with increased deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation?” — don’t receive a …
Why Fathers Are Less Likely to Die of Heart Disease
Having children may drain a man’s testosterone, but a large family may also be an indicator of heart health, a new study finds.
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