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Written by Conceive Editors    Friday, 12 March 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
laptop handsTo help Conceive continue to provide women and couples with the best information and support they need for trying to conceive, we are asking for your input. Please give us your feedback and opinions by taking an online questionnaire. And as a thank you, you are automatically entered into a drawing f…
 

Ripley's Fertility Statues Still on Tour

Written by Conceive Editors    Tuesday, 09 March 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
RipleysWhether or not you believe in the pregnancy-producing powers of two African fertility statues, in the spirit of "it couldn't hurt" there are still plenty of opportunities to touch the figures that are touring Ripley’s Believe It or Not locations across the country. The 5-foot tall wooden statues com…
 

Women 40 And Under Can Now Freeze Their Eggs At Genetics & IVF Institute For Use In The Future

Written by Medical News Today    Thursday, 04 March 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
Egg freezeGenetics & IVF Institute (GIVF) is launching a Personal Egg Banking service in the Washington, DC area to help women 40 and under who want to cryopreserve (freeze) their eggs now for use in the future when they wish to become pregnant. The age of a woman's eggs dramatically affects her ability t…
 

Woman Gives Birth To Two Healthy Babies In Separate Pregnancies After Ovarian Transplant

Written by Medical News Today    Thursday, 25 February 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
Ovarian transplantFor the first time, a woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using transplants of ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen during her cancer treatment and then restored once she was cured.Following her ovarian transplant, Mrs Stinne Holm Bergholdt gave birth to…
 

Children Of Assisted Reproductive Technology Face Genetic Health Risks

Written by Medical News Today    Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
Family geneticsMore than three million children have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies since the birth of the first "test tube baby" in 1978. While the majority of these children are healthy and normal, as a group they are at greater risk of certain kinds of birth defects and being low bi…
 

Fertility Centers Of Illinois Launches In House Egg Donor Program Providing One Stop Shop For Couples

Written by Medical News Today    Friday, 19 February 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
Fertility clinicFertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) has officially launched their Egg Donor Program, making them the only in house program in Chicago offering third party reproduction options, fertility treatment, fertility counseling and more in one place. Dr. Jane Nani, Director of the FCI Egg Donor Program, is e…
 

Frozen Embryos May Be Better for IVF

Written by Conceive Editors    Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
Egg freezeThe debate over fresh versus frozen embryos for women seeking help from in vitro fertilization (IVF) continues, but as reported by Reuters, a new study out of Finland suggests that frozen might be the better choice. The researchers found that frozen embryos were less likely to be linked to low birth…
 

Autism Risk Higher When Mother Is Older, Study

Written by Medical News Today    Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
Older momResearchers who studied records of all births occurring in California in the 1990s found that the risk of having a child with autism was significantly higher when the mother was older, regardless of the father's age, except when the mother was younger, the risk was also higher if the father were old…
 

New Study Demonstrates Novel Use Of Metabolic Imaging To Locate Sperm In Infertile Men

Written by Medical News Today    Monday, 08 February 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
Non-invasiveMen with no sperm in their ejaculate—a condition known as azoospermia—may no longer need invasive procedures to determine if they have sperm in their testes according to a new study published in Human Reproduction. Instead, the study found that MR Spectroscopy-a simple metabolic scan that combines t…
 

Obese Women Undergoing Infertility Treatment Advised Not To Attempt Rapid Weight Loss

Written by Medical News Today    Thursday, 04 February 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail
Weight lossObese women who undergo rapid weight loss to get pregnant may harm rather than improve their chances of having a healthy baby, a leading researcher suggested this week. Professor Richard Legro of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Penns…
 
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