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Whether 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…

Genetics & 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…

For 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…

More 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 (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…

The 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…

Researchers 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…

Men 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 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…