Fertility News

UK MPs To Vote On Hybrid Embryos

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:40:10 GMT

As part of a two-day series of reforms to update the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in line with scientific advances, members of the UK parliament's House of Commons are voting later today, Monday, on whether stem cell researchers should be allowed to use hybrid human and animal embryos.

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Calif. Supreme Court Weighs Whether IVF Can Be Denied Based On Sexual Orientation

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:40:08 GMT

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in the case of a woman who claims she was denied in vitro fertilization by her physicians because she is a lesbian, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 5/29).

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Is Tubal Ligation Permanent?

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:40:08 GMT

Almost every publication about tubal ligation stresses that it is a permanent method of birth control.

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Thinking About Being A Father?

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:40:07 GMT

The National Center for Health Statistics data indicate that Georgia had 149, 919 new babies born in 2005, the latest year statistics are available.

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FDA Clears ExAblate Fertility Enhancement Study In Women With Uterine Fibroids

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:20:05 GMT

InSightec Ltd. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the company to conduct a clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the ExAblate(R) 2000 system utilizing MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) for the enhancement of fertility in women with non-hysteroscopically resectable uterine fibroids who are diagnosed with unexplained infertility.

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Opioids And Cannabinoids Influence Mobility Of Spermatozoids

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:20:03 GMT

A PhD thesis from the University of the Basque Country has concluded that there are opioid and cannabinoid receptors in human sperm and that these influence the mobility of spermatozoid.

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C-Sections A Critical Factor In Preterm Birth Increase

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:20:05 GMT

Cesarean sections account for nearly all of the increase in U.S. singleton preterm births, according to an analysis of nine years of national birth data.

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A First In Fertility Research: The Use Of DNA Fingerprinting To Identify Viable Embryos

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:06 GMT

Fertility researchers have used DNA fingerprinting for the first time to identify which embryos have implanted after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and developed successfully to result in the births of healthy babies.

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Disabling Mouse Enzyme Increases Fertility

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:05 GMT

Changing the sugars attached to a hormone produced in the pituitary gland increased fertility levels in mice nearly 50 percent, a research group at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

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DNA Fingerprinting Identifies Viable IVF Embryos

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:20:11 GMT

An international team of scientists has discovered a way of testing IVF embryos using DNA fingerprinting that could one day be used to select the ones that are more likely to implant successfully and grow to full term and thereby increase the likelihood of a successful pregnancy.

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