Should infertile couples forgo their desire for biological children and turn instead to adoption?
Condoms and vasectomies are so yesterday. Researchers are working on a way to zap sperm to control male fertility.
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 whole lot of media attention. But a recent article that raised the question of whether WiFi-enabled laptops might be frying men’s sperm proved to [...]
Treatment with the cancer drug Avastin may affect fertility in some women, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday. The agency said a new warning about the risk of “ovarian failure” was added to the drug’s label.
Having children may drain a man’s testosterone, but a large family may also be an indicator of heart health, a new study finds.
Taking aspirin during fertility treatment does not increase women’s chances of conceiving, according to a new review of the research.
Japanese scientists successfully restored fertility in sterile mice using sperm cells that were originated in the lab, reports a new study in the journal Cell. The research promises to help scientists better understand fertility in humans and may someday even help lead to new infertility treatments.
A mutation in a gene for a sperm-related protein found in 20% of men may be responsible for a significant proportion of unexplained male infertility, according to a new study.
In the dystopian book and film Children of Men, human beings suddenly stop being able to have children. There’s no real explanation given for the change — though there’s talk of a precipitous decline in sperm count quality — but the loss of the ability to reproduce essentially robs humanity of its future, and leads [...]
A study of 229 Israeli women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to treat infertility found that a 15-minute visit from a trained “medical clown” immediately after the embryos were placed in the womb increased the chance of pregnancy to 36%, compared with 20% for women whose embryo transfer was comedy-free.
