A simple method for isolating placental cells from cervical swabs has been developed by Brown University researchers. The technique, described in the journal Scientific Reports, could aid in developing less invasive ways of diagnosing genetic disorders in developing fetuses, without using needles to harvest cells...
France’s lower house of parliament overwhelmingly passed a bill that aims to give single women and lesbian couples legal access to in vitro fertilization, egg freezing and fertility medication. The assisted reproduction measures are part of a broader bioethics bill voted by the National Assembly, the...
The potential impact of undiagnosed sexually transmitted chlamydia infection on men's fertility has been highlighted in a study led by Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Researchers for the first time found chlamydia in the testicular tissue biopsies of infertile men, whose infertility had no identified...
Demographers credit the boom in twin births since the 1980s to women choosing to become mothers at older ages, using fertility treatments to get pregnant. The twin birthrate has declined in the United States after rising for three decades. A new report released by the...
Researchers in Israel have revealed a groundbreaking therapy for chronic bacterial vaginosis (BV) using transplanted vaginal fluid from a healthy donor. Published in the journal Nature Medicine, the study is the first to show the effectiveness of vaginal microbiome transplantation (VMT) to treat BV. The study on...
By I.Soussis, MD, Fertility Specialist A woman experiences her period for the whole of her reproductive life. Sometimes, she considers as normal symptoms that should not exist. Ηow do you know if your period is causing problems that it shouldn’t? In most cases you should not worry...
By I.Soussis MD Experts have only recently begun to recognize how widespread leg pain may be in women with endometriosis. Usually endometriosis patients experience extremely painful, heavy periods, pain after or during sexual activity (called dyspareunia) and pelvic pain. When endometriosis growths though impact the nerves...
Women who have had surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis and want to get pregnant have a reasonably high chance of conception, even after multiple failed in vitro fertilization (IVF) attempts, a new study suggests. The study, "Pregnancy rates after surgical treatment of deep infiltrating endometriosis in...
Many OB-GYNs are uncomfortable counseling their patients on fertility at a time when more women are delaying pregnancy and needing their doctors to be more vigilant about this education, according to a new study. "We found that most OB-GYNs don't bring up fertility with every...
E-cigarette usage may impair fertility and pregnancy outcomes, according to a mouse study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. Many young and pregnant women are using e-cigarettes as a safer alternative to smoking, but little is known about the effects on fertility and pregnancy...
