Fertility Treatment Articles & Stories
Treatment Overview for Improving Fertility
You probably know that changes in diet and exercise can effect improve you heart and decrease your risk of cancer. But a study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology found that women who followed a combination of five or more lifestyle factors, including changing specific aspects of their diet... Read More
Food and Fertility - Fact and Fiction
Can eating the right foods help fertility? Or is it more myth than fact. More and more research is emerging that the right foods and healthy lifestyle choices do make a difference in helping to make babies. Read More
PCOS, Exercise, and Acupuncture
While polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects as many as 10 percent of women and is the most common cause of infertility among women, yet it remains a relatively unknown condition. Polycystic ovary syndrome or (PCOS) isn't an easily diagnosed disorder because it is a collection of symptoms i... Read More
Discovery Links Pre-Eclampsia to Diet
Women with the condition pre-eclampsia have been found with red blood cells containing unusually high levels of a compound found in unpasteurized food, according to research published in the journal Reproductive Sciences. The findings are important because they hint at the possibility of this ... Read More
Fertility Drugs Raise Cancer Risk
Taking medications to enhance fertility appears to increase the chance of developing uterine cancer in particular, as well as some other forms of the disease, according to a very large, long, recently completed study. Drugs that stimulate ovulation have been used for more than three decades to... Read More
Diet and Lifestyle Changes May Prevent Infertility
A study published in the latest issue of Obstectrics and Gynecology has found that women who followed a combination of five or more lifestyle factors, including changing specific aspects of their diets, experienced more than 80 percent less relative risk of infertility due to ovulatory disorde... Read More
"Fertility Tourism" Carries Health Risks
Women who go to overseas fertility clinics run the risk of higher-than-average multiple pregnancies, which can dramatically increase the chances of high blood pressure, hospital stays, premature labor, fetal disabilities and even death in mother or babies. A study done on 109 British women wi... Read More
In Vitro Fertilization Improves
Clinical results from Down Under suggest that recent advances in in-vitro fertilization (IVF) can double the chances of having a baby for women in their early 40s. And the success rate for this group is increasing faster than any other's. The successes resulted from improved media for culturi... Read More
Protein Boosts Sex Hormones, Suggesting Infertility Therapy
Giving a special hormone to infertile women can dramatically increase their production of sex hormones, which may lead to a new infertility treatment for women with low sex hormone levels, a recent study demonstrated. The work, which was led by Waljit Dhillo of the Departm... Read More
Expert Commentary: Zhanhai Zhang, MD, Ph.D, LAC 11-16-2009
A reliable conclusion can take years or even decades, but in the here and now, our suspicions and concerns are of ultimate importance. Here is a brief summary of some of the side effects fertility clinic patients encounter while they take drugs and receive treatment: hot flashes, emotional irr... Read More
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- In Vitro Fertilization Improves
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- In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) - Making Futures Possible
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- Using Frozen Embryos Increases Pregnancy Chances
- Infertility Treatment Jeopardize Pregnant Women's Health
- Unicellular Test Lets Doctors Weed Out Mutated Embryos
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- Sperm Quality Worsens With Obesity
- Fertility Drugs Raise Cancer Risk
- Acupuncture May Help Some Women Conceive
- Infertility Treatment Jeopardize Pregnant Women's Health
- Scientists Clone Vital Sperm Protein
- Fertility Drugs Raise Cancer Risk
- Scientists Clone Vital Sperm Protein
- Amr Azim, M.D. on Advances in In Vitro Fertilization
- In-vitro Baby Born from Immature Frozen Egg
- Food and Fertility - Fact and Fiction
- Discovery Links Pre-Eclampsia to Diet
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