Women :: Little improvement in women’s lives
Limited progress has been made in improving the health and well-being of women worldwide over the past decade.
Fertility
Fertility :: Most fertility clinic Web sites do not conform to ad guidelines
The majority of fertility clinic Web sites do not adhere to their own association’s advertising guidelines, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago study published in the January issue of Fertility and Sterility.
Fertility :: RCOG statement on the BBC Panorama programme IVF Undercover
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) promotes good practice in the field of reproductive medicine through its own guidelines, and supports those recently published by NICE. It provides formal subspecialist training programmes in reproductive medicine through which additional highly specialised training is received by specialist gynaecologists, who are expected to practice to the very highest standards in infertility provision.
Uterus Transplant :: Uterus transplant planned in US hospital
Uterus transplant could help many women fulfil the desire to have a child, as this is a tremendous driving force for many women, especially who cannot bear children because of a malfunctioning uterus. Doctors in a New York hospital are planning the first uterus transplant and are screening women who would have a chance to bear children.
Stem Cell :: Britain seeks opinion on stem cell study
Members of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority discussed the broad principles for handling any research proposals into hybrid and chimera research. The HFEA has received two applications from scientific teams to carry out research using human cells and animal eggs to produce stem cells.
Fertility :: Young single men bank sperm before testicular cancer treatment
A quarter of men with testicular cancer banked their sperm before treatment, but only six percent of those used the sperm to father a child. Men who banked their sperm averaged 26 — 10 years younger than those who didn’t — and were more than twice as likely to be single. As most men treated for testicular cancer are young, and survival rates exceed 90 percent, post-treatment fertility is an important issue, say researchers.
Pregnancy :: Spanish woman oldest mother of twins
A 67-year-old Spanish woman gave birth to twins according to hospital officials in Barcelona, becoming the world’s oldest mother. The woman became pregnant after fertility treatment in Latin America.
Fertility :: New IVF treatment IVM safe, cheaper
A new method of assisting couples to bear children known as “in vitro maturation” (IVM) has been introduced by Dr. S. Lindenberg, Fertility Unit, Herlev University, Copenhagen. An alternative to the standard approach is to collect immature oocytes from medium sized follicles during midcycle and to then mature the ova in the laboratory (IVM).
Sex :: Sex ends as seasons shift and kisspeptin levels plummet
A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at Berkeley scientists in the March 2007 issue of Endocrinology. The paper is now accessible online via the journal’s rapid electronic publication service.
Fertility :: Declining US fertility rates
In the United States, the total fertility rate — the number of children a woman has in her lifetime — fell from seven or eight in 1800 to slightly more than two today, says J. David Hacker, assistant professor of history at Binghamton University. And with a five-year $667,237 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Hacker hopes to find out why.