An unnamed 59 year old Frenchwoman, of Vietnamese origin, gave birth to triplets on Saturday night. After seeking in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Vietnam, the woman delivered two boys and a girl by cesarean at a Paris hospital. According to a spokesman, ‘everything went smoothly.’ The babies are healthy, weighing between 4 lbs 9 oz [...]
Tags: aging mothers, fetility treatment, France, infertility, IVF, multiples, triplets
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According to medical statistics, lack of ovulation, or ovulation irregularity is the most commonly cited reasons for infertility. Now, researchers in Canada and France, have successfully found the gene that controls ovulation. This is an exciting discovery, for it means that drugs meant to control and regulate ovulation can be more targeted. [...]
Tags: fertility, infertility, Lrh1, ovulation
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I saw an article yesterday about the clash between our modern culture and our biology. Basically, the author had interviewed a lot of women trying to conceive later in life and came to the shocking conclusion which many of us ‘older‘ women have already discovered: reproducing when you are nearing 40 is not as easy [...]
Tags: biology, conceiving, fertility, infertility, miscarrying
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One-third of couples have trouble conceiving because of male infertility, and in order to conceive must rely on donor sperm and in vitro fertilization. But advances in the study of artificial sperm may change all of that, allowing a father to have a biological connection to his child.
In 2006 a German medical team successfully created [...]
Tags: artificial sperm, Engel, genetics, in-vitro fertilization, infertility, science, sperm donor
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Eating half a serving of soy products a day can cut a man’s sperm count nearly in half, according to Harvard University researchers.
Researchers released preliminary results from a study of couples undergoing fertility treatment. They asked the men about their diets, and specifically if and how often they ate soy products. Men who ate [...]
Tags: infertility, soy, sperm, sperm count
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