The quality of a woman’s eggs is particularly affected when a large ovarian cyst (endometrioma) sometimes called chocolate cyst has a diameter larger than 3 cm....
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...
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...
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...
By I Soussis MD Deficiency of a protein in the womb has been identified as the reason why endometriosis causes infertility, according to a new study published in Science Translational Medicine. American and South Korean researchers investigated the link between endometriosis and infertility. In endometriosis, womb-lining tissue...
By I. Soussis MD,MSc, FRCOG, Fertility Specialist The Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of the commercial version of the drug elagolix for the treatment of endometriosis pain. This is the first time in over a decade that an oral treatment specifically designed for endometriosis pain has been...
