Infertility News

A new study compared Clomid to Femara , manufactured by Novartis, and found it to be superior for infertility treatment Polycystic ovary syndrome is one of the most common causes of infertility in women.

The drug letrozole results in higher birth rates in women with polycystic ovary syndrome than the current preferred infertility treatment drug, according to a nationwide study led by Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

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Using computer-automated, time-lapse photography of embryos in the laboratory during in-vitro fertilization may improve embryo selection, potentially increasing the chances of pregnancy among women undergoing the procedure, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and five other fertility ... (more)

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Despite evidence indicating that sperm quality declines as men age, a new study shows that a sperm donor's age doesn't affect the success rates of infertility treatments utilizing donor sperm, Healthy Day News reported.

While the majority of younger women are aware of egg freezing as a technique of fertility preservation and consider it an acceptable means of reproductive planning, only one in five would consider it appropriate for them, according to the results of an internet survey performed in the UK and Denmark.

As more women wait to start their families or turn to infertility treatments, more and more women are finding themselves pregnant with twins.

Women who are able to naturally have children later in life tend to live longer and the genetic variants that allow them to do so might also facilitate exceptionally long life spans.

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Ferring's follicle-stimulating hormone is in development with a companion diagnostic test from Roche to help improve the clinical management of infertility treatment )--Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Roche have announced a collaboration to combine diagnostic testing technology from Roche with Ferring's human cell line derived recombinant ... (more)

Are you struggling to get pregnant or know someone who is? About 10% of reproductive age couples have trouble conceiving, which translates into approximately 7 million women and their partners.

Before it can fertilize an egg, a sperm has to bind to and bore through an outer egg layer known as the zona pellucida.

Women need to begin thinking about their reproductive options early - in their 20s and 30s - rather than the 40s when it may be too late, said Alison Zimon, a reproductive endocrinologist at Boston IVF, a New England infertility treatment center with locations in Boston and surrounding suburbs.

People and mice with mutations in a specific signaling pathway, known as kisspeptin, suffer reproductive effects such as delayed puberty and infertility.

The "Goldilocks effect" in fruit fly embryos may be more intricate than previously thought.