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Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Also Included In: Pregnancy / Obstetrics ; Fertility Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Obese women are as much as 28 percent less likely to become pregnant and have a successful pregnancy, according to research that earned a Michigan State University professor a national award.

It can be one of the most painful or one of the most joyful experiences of your life.

They could be the most annoying two words a couple can hear while trying to conceive: "Just relax!" It feels like an impossible directive.

A proposed document from the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities looks at the relationship between sex and procreation and the moral issues surrounding various technologies for treating infertility, including in vitro fertilization, embryo adoption and surrogacy.

WASHINGTON, D.C., OCT. 30, 2009 .- The U.S. bishops will debate a document next month that encourages couples struggling with infertility to embrace "legitimate" treatments to fulfill their desire to be parents.

In a recent study from the Ohio State University Medical Center, 62.2 percent of those surveyed turned to alternative therapies before turning to more invasive medical treatments for infertility and getting pregnant .

Dr Xiao-Ping Zhai has helped hundreds of infertile women get pregnant, using acupuncture, herbs and boiled twigs Dr Xiao-Ping Zhai in her London clinic with some of the babies she has helped conceive.

Genetic engineers, as we quaintly used to call people who tinker with genes, have crossed another scientific-ethical line.

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Stem cells were changed to form the precursors of sperm and eggs in a research advance that may lead to better ways of treating the infertility affecting 10 to 15 percent of would-be parents in the U.S. By manipulating genes, researchers were able to make germ cells, the forerunners of eggs and sperm, said Renee Reijo Pera , the Stanford University ...

Main Category: Urology / Nephrology Also Included In: Fertility Article Date: 26 Oct 2009 - 2:00 PDT UroToday.com - The association between undescended testes and impaired fertility has been well-studied and well-described. 1-5 Given the readily identifiable anatomic abnormality and the low-risk of surgical intervention, the recommended age at ...

North Coast Women's Care Medical Group settled a lawsuit last month for an undisclosed amount with Guadalupe Benitez, left.

Couples who smoke, or are overweight, should be denied taxpayer-funded access to fertility treatments until they improve their health, a visiting expert says.

FACE TO FACE: Should taxpayers foot the bill for infertility treatments? Not long ago, my colleague opposite was bemoaning the fact that women just weren't reproducing enough, with the long-term consequence that our way of life is threatened.

A prospective, multi-center study demonstrated that in IVF cycles supplemented with once-daily dosing of Crinone vaginal progesterone gel and Estrace oral estrogen, vaginal bleeding is rare in patients who become pregnant.

Posted By jeepndave 23 hours, 7 minutes ago in Health & Fitness There are enough infertility treatments on the map for treating fertility issues that it can be quite over whelming.

The symptoms of infertility can be very different from one person to the next and are related to the source of the problem of course.

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Researchers from Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston presented data from the largest, prospective, randomized clinical study to date comparing any vaginal progesterone to intramuscular injections of progesterone for infertility treatment.

Embryos that are most likely to result in a pregnancy are crucial to the success of in vitro fertilization but are difficult to identify.