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Obama comfortable with FDA decision to let 15-year-olds buy morning-after pill
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • May 03 13
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he is comfortable with a U.S. government agency’s decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill for…
Economics Influence Fertility Rates, Says MU Anthropologist
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • May 01 13
The world population could top 8 billion in the year 2023 if current growth rates remain constant, according to United Nations figures. However, if…
Important fertility mechanism discovered
• Fertility and pregnancy • Apr 25 13
Scientists in Mainz and Aachen have discovered a new mechanism that controls egg cell fertility and that might have future therapeutic potential. It was…
Study suggests demographic factors can predict risk of operative births in UK women
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Mar 20 13
Independent maternal demographic factors such as social status, ethnicity and maternal age can predict the likelihood of operative births in the UK, according to…
City Can’t Win on Teen Pregnancy Issue
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • • Public Health • Mar 07 13
The city spent two years and more than $400,000 developing its new campaign to prevent teen pregnancy, but apparently focus groups didn’t reveal that…
Program increases contraceptive use in at-risk teens
• Fertility and pregnancy • Mar 03 13
Long after completing an 18-month program designed to teach about contraception and healthy relationships, teenage girls at high risk for unwanted pregnancy were using…
Mom’s drinking tied to infant deaths: study
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • Feb 27 13
About one in six sudden infant deaths may be linked to their mothers’ heavy alcohol use during or soon after pregnancy, according to a…
Surrogate births - how low levels of monitoring and regulation could lead to financial, physical and emotional exploitation
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • • Pregnancy • Jan 18 13
COUPLES seeking to build a family, and surrogate mothers overseas who help them, are in danger of emotional, physical and financial exploitation unless UK…
Almost one in six couples face infertility: study
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jan 13 13
Close to one in six U.S. couples don’t get pregnant despite a year of trying - after which doctors typically recommend evaluation for infertility,…
Queen’s research gives fresh hope to couples with ‘unexplained infertility’
• Fertility and pregnancy • Nov 14 12
New research from Queen’s University Belfast has uncovered the cause of infertility for 80 per cent of couples previously diagnosed with ‘unexplained infertility’.
At…
Mice experiment may point to new ways to protect female fertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • Sep 23 12
Egg cells can repair themselves from damage caused by radiation far better than doctors ever thought, a finding researchers say gives fresh hope in…
Ramadan fasting not linked to preterm births
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • Aug 13 12
In a small new study, pregnant women who fasted during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan were no more likely to give birth prematurely…
Fertility Tx May Alter Cancer Risk
• Cancer • • Fertility and pregnancy • Jul 15 12
The unsuccessful use of fertility drugs was associated with a reduced risk of young-onset breast cancer, although women who did go on to conceive…
Public favors posthumous reproduction, with consent
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Jul 14 12
Many Americans may think it’s OK to retrieve sperm or eggs from a dead or dying spouse in order to have children in the…
Lubricants may not harm fertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • Jul 10 12
In a study that tracked couples trying to conceive, researchers found no differences in the success rates of those who used over-the-counter lubricant products…
Women get less information on post-cancer fertility: study
• Cancer • • Fertility and pregnancy • May 28 12
Cancer treatment can sometimes lead to infertility, but young women are far less likely than young men to be informed of this, according to…
Higher risk of birth defects from assisted reproduction
• Childbirth • • Fertility and pregnancy • May 05 12
A University of Adelaide study has identified the risk of major birth defects associated with different types of assisted reproductive technology.
In the most…
U.S. adds more on clot risk to some birth control pills
• Drug Abuse • • Fertility and pregnancy • Apr 11 12
U.S. health regulators are adding information to the labels on a popular class of birth control pills that includes Bayer AG’s Yaz and Yasmin,…
Fertility Help Not Equal for Cancer Patients
• Cancer • • Fertility and pregnancy • Mar 26 12
Not all young women receiving fertility-threatening cancer treatments have had equal access to counseling or preservation services, researchers found.
Patients with a college degree…
Wisconsin to ban some abortion coverage, re-focus sex-education
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • • Public Health • Mar 15 12
Wisconsin lawmakers have approved controversial measures to block the state’s new health insurance exchange from covering abortions and require sex education classes to emphasize…
Does acupuncture boost IVF success
• Alternative Medicine • • Fertility and pregnancy • Jan 30 12
Acupuncture may help some women conceive through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a new analysis of past research concludes. But the true benefit in the real…
East Meets West to Boost Fertility
• Chinese Medicine • • Fertility and pregnancy • Jan 09 12
Traditional Chinese medicine has long been used to ease pain, treat disease, boost fertility, and prevent miscarriage. Known in the Western medical community by…
California sperm donor at odds with federal regulators
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Dec 21 11
An electronics company engineer who the U.S. government considers a one-man sperm bank has fathered an estimated 14 children through free donations of his…
Interethnic marriage between African and Native Americans produced many children
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
American Indians with African ancestry outdid ‘full bloods’ in reproductive terms in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against them, according to a…
Afghanistan fights population growth with birth control
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Aug 24 11
The Afghan government is trying to curb a booming population by promoting birth control but such efforts have been met with caution from aid…