Fertility Clinics Seek To Improve Access By Lowering Costs, Increasing ProvidersSome fertility clinics are offering in vitro fertilization at lower costs to make the treatments more accessible to patients who could not otherwise afford them, Newsweek reports. A study by the European Society of Human Reproductive and Embryology found that the average cost of infertility treatment in the U.S. is about $13,775, compared with $4,012 in Japan and $3,109 in Belgium...
Why Did In Vitro Fertilization Occur Without Any Public Funding?On 25th July, 1978 Louise Brown, the first in vitro fertilization baby was born thanks to privately funded research carried out by the Cambridge (UK) physiologist Robert Edwards and the Oldham (UK) gynecologist Patrick Steptoe. The whole thing was privately funded because the Medical Research Council (MRC), UK turned down a request for long-term financial support in 1971...
Fertility Decline Driven By Marriage PatternsResearchers at the University of Sheffield have applied an evolutionary 'use it or lose it' principle when studying past marriage patterns, to show that marriage can influence the evolution of age-patterns of fertility...
American Woman With Double Uterus Expecting Two Babies Who Are Not Twins An American woman with a double uterus, a rare condition that affects around 1 per thousand women in the US, is expecting two babies, due one week apart, but they are not twins because one baby is growing in one womb and the other baby, conceived at a separate time, is growing in the other womb...
A Dead Sirt(3) To Protect Preimplantation EmbryosInfertility affects approximately 10% of couples worldwide. Although assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization are commonly used in developed countries to treat infertile couples, the processes remain relatively inefficient...
Stanford Develop New Test To Predict Success Of IVF TreatmentWomen who fail to become pregnant after undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment often grapple with the decision of whether to try IVF again. It's a difficult one to make: The procedure carries hefty financial, physical and emotional costs, and there are no guarantees it will work...
New Therapy For Vasculitis May Help Patients Avoid Infertility And CancerResearchers have reported that Rituximab, a drug that is FDA approved to treat B cell lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis, can also treat severe vasculitis as well as the current standard therapy. Infertility and the development of cancers have been associated with the traditionally used medication, cyclophosphamide, and the risk of these complications is expected to be much lower with Rituximab...
Women's Libido Increased By Ticking Biological Clock According To New ResearchAs more women wait until their 30s and 40s to have children, they are more willing to engage in a variety of sexual activities to capitalize on their remaining childbearing years, according to new research by psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin. Such "reproduction expediting" includes one-night stands and adventurous bedroom behavior, the research shows...
Washington Post Commentary Explores Embryo FreezingThe Washington Post on Tuesday featured a commentary from Gillian St. Lawrence, a 30-year-old woman who underwent in vitro fertilization and embryo freezing as "a way to postpone parenthood without risking the higher miscarriage and genetic disorder rates that occur in babies conceived from parents older than 35...