preserve eggs for reproduction need to be given in stages, albeit rapid ones, say scientists who have developed a mathematical model that predicts optimal time for loading and unloading these drugs. Their studies in Rhesus monkey eggs, which are very similar to human eggs, show that a two-step process...
Drugs For Preserving Eggs For Reproduction Need To Be Given In Stages
“Funding For Fertility” Website Aims To Help Infertility Patients Affected By The Postcode Lottery For NHS Funding Across The UK
Infertility Network UK (I N UK) is excited to announce our new “Funding for Fertility” section on our website. Funding for Fertility is a new service designed to benefit all infertility patients across the United Kingdom, providing patients with easy access to information about NHS funding...
Baby Bonus, Assisted Reproductive Technology A Boon For Fertility
The birth rate was turned around in the first two years after the introduction of the baby bonus in 2004, as Australians appeared to heed the then-treasurer’s advice and have a third child “for the country”. These findings form part of a broad examination of fertility and government...
Improved Reproductive Techniques Push The Boundaries
Advances in medical science are opening new possibilities for prospective parents - and new challenges for legislators, as indicated by two reports in the current issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. An article from Dr David Molloy, Clinical Director of the Queensland Fertility Group, and colleagues...
Peers Honor Research Revealing Connection Between Cancer Therapies And Sterility
Illuminating the molecular details of normal sperm development, demonstrating how chemotherapy or radiation can leave a man or boy sterile, and pursuing ways to restore fertility have earned a major honor for a scientist at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Marvin Meistrich, Ph.D.,...
Promega And Celsis In Vitro Technologies To Offer More Reliable Solutions For ADME/Tox Testing In Primary Hepatocytes
Promega Corp. and Baltimore, Md.-based Celsis In Vitro Technologies (Celsis IVT) will take the trial and guess work out of ADME/Tox testing in primary hepatocytes. Promega will co-market their bioluminescent ADME-Tox assays with Celsis’ extensive line of high quality cryopreserved plateable hepatocytes....
Fertility Expert Calls Birth Of Octuplets ‘Criminal’
While people across the country scrutinize the unemployed mother of six young children who then gave birth to octuplets Jan. 26, eyes also must turn to the fertility doctor who treated her. According to the 33-year-old mother, Nadya Suleman, the same physician treated her for each of her pregnancies....
Fertility Drugs Not Associated With Increased Risk Of Ovarian Cancer, Study Says
Fertility drugs do not significantly increase a woman’s risk of ovarian cancer, although further study may be needed to determine whether the risk of such cancer increases with age, according to a study published Thursday in the British Medical Journal, the New York Times reports. For the study,...
Just Living With Females Extends The Reproductive Life Of The Male Mouse, Says Penn Veterinary Researcher
Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent, according to a study conducted by Ralph Brinster and a team of other researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. The study was reported online in the journal Biology...
Miracle Christmas Birth, Leicester Royal Infirmary, England
Tina Smith and her husband Adam had been trying for a baby for three years before being told they were unlikely to have children. But this Christmas their dreams have come true with the expected birth of their first child, thanks to fertility specialists at Leicester’s hospitals. The couple, from...