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Consultation on the controversial procedure begins amid outcry against ‘macabre’ practice The Independent Jeremy Laurance January 20, 2012 The controversial technique known as “three-parent IVF” came a step closer yesterday after the Department of Health asked the fertility regulator to conduct a public consultation into its acceptability. At the same time the Wellcome Trust announced Continue Reading …
Gender Across Borders January 23, 2012 This post is by Aphra Behn of Guerilla Girls On Tour! While on tour this year, I felt an uncomfortable cramping near my crotch. It was somewhere between Arkansas and Oklahoma that I realized what it was. The government was tightening its grip on my uterus. In Kansas, my uterus signed Continue Reading …
Vaccinations during childhood could be made less effective by exposure to chemicals commonly found in plastic containers and food packaging, Harvard researchers have claimed. The Telegraph By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent 7:30AM GMT 25 Jan 2012 The man-made chemicals, known as PFCs, are found in a variety of everyday items including non-stick frying pans, waterproof Continue Reading …
Women are undergoing expensive, physically painful, emotionally grueling, and sometimes dangerous in vitro fertilization unnecessarily, because most fertility clinics continue to focus solely on women’s fertility issues, while paying little attention to the possibility of male infertility before starting a course of treatment. According to some of the UK’s top male health specialists, male infertility problems are going undiagnosed and untreated, resulting in women undergoing unnecessary IVF procedures; with all the inherent costs and emotional distress, as well as the possibility of medical injury.
Blott R First posted: Monday, 16 January, 2012 – 16:17 Last updated: Tuesday, 17 January, 2012 – 08:57 Human Fertility Today Scores Less than 50% of Levels 20 years ago So what has changed in our environment to affect mankind’s fertility in such a drastic manner, and please, be assured that this is a presently Continue Reading …
New England Journal of Medicine
N Engl J Med 2011; 365:1304-1314October 6, 2011
Background
Before 1971, several million women were exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol (DES) given to their mothers to prevent pregnancy complications. Several adverse outcomes have been linked to such exposure, but their cumulative effects are not well understood.
Prevent Disease
The Economist reported this week that falling fertility rates around the world spell doom for many countries as the single life appeals to more women than replacing themselves through children.
For hundreds of years, the world’s population has grown steadily. But demographers now believe that within several decades, the number of people on earth will actually begin to decline. Women in the wealthier parts of Asia, for example, are literally on a “marriage strike” leading to a drop in birth rates.
Irish Health
August 27, 2011
by Deborah Condon www.irishhealth.com]
Chemotherapy may have a greater effect on a woman’s fertility than first estimated, a new study indicates.
According to US researchers, previous studies have tended to focus on whether a woman’s periods come back after treatment. The absence of menstruation is known as amenorrhoea and until now, it has been viewed as one of the main reproductive side-effects associated with chemotherapy.
08.15.11 Author Rachel Lehmann- Haupt will join me to discuss her book ‘In Her Own Sweet Time – Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood’ on Holy Hormones Honey Radio on KRFC FM on Monday August 15.
But, experts say treatment may not preserve fertility, has drawbacks
Healthday
Posted: July 19, 2011
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) — Giving the ovaries a rest when young women with breast cancer are undergoing chemotherapy may help prevent early menopause and preserve fertility.
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According to new research in the July 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, shutting down the ovaries by giving the hormone triptorelin when a patient is undergoing chemotherapy helped prevent early menopause.
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