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Obesity Raises Risk of Miscarriage

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Obesity and women’s fertility are strongly related, as any woman with PCOS could tell you. You can add this new study from the UK to a growing list of studies which suggest a linkage between women’s body weight their ability to conceive and carry a pregnancy to term: Overweight women undergoing fertility treatment have double [...]

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Lack of Sleep Linked to Female Infertility

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Dr. Michael Breus, PhD sleep expert and author of the Insomnia Blog, points to a new report that suggests how lack of sleep is linked to female infertility. Here’s how a lack of sleep impacts a woman’s fertility: …[Without enough sleep] one of your body’s most important systems, the endocrine system, will start to malfunction. [...]

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Study: Fertility Treatments Linked to High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy

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Women who get pregnant with fertility treatments like IVF, ICSI, and IUI are more likely to develop gestational hypertension than women who get pregnant “the old fashioned way,” from sexual intercourse, according to new a new study by researchers at Boston University. Boston University’s Dr. Allen A. Mitchell and colleagues studied more than 5,000 women [...]

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Study Links Obesity to PCOS Infertility in Women

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In Western nations where obesity is increasing, there is going to be an infertility crisis. A new study published in the medical journal The Lancet suggests that obesity is closely linked to PCOS, or polycystic ovarian syndrome. Right now, PCOS is a leading cause of female infertility that affects 1 in 15 women around the [...]

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ICSI May Be Overused by IVF Clinics

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IVF clinics may be overusing the fertility treatment known as ICSI, or intracytoplasmic sperm injection, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. ICSI is a fertility treatment used to treat low semen count or poor sperm quality, two types of male infertility. To perform ICSI, laboratory specialists place a [...]

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PGD and IVF Is No Riskier Than IVF Alone

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Good news for aspiring parents at risk of passing on genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease to their children. According to a recently released study, children born from using PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) do not experience any more birth defects than those born without using PGD. PGD can help these couples identify [...]

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Pregnancy Success Rates Using Donor Eggs

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In the United States, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) collects data from fertility clinics on their pregnancy success rates for infertility treatments such as IVF, PCG, and ICSI. In these surveys, the pregnancy success rate is defined as the percentage of a particular treatment that results in a pregnancy and live birth. Recently I [...]

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Sperm Donors Make Less Than Egg Donors

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Although the nature of the genetic material is different, sperm donors and egg donors both contribute equally to the making of a child. Yet according to one UCLA researcher, they are treated very differently, and male sperm donors are valued less than female egg donors. In a recent interview, UCLA sociologist Rene Almeling says that: [...]

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