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Where Have All the Sperm Gone? 1 in 5 Men Are 'Subfertile'

When it comes to conceiving a child, a man's got to do what a man's got to do. But researchers say a growing number of men are struggling to do just that. Around the developed world, sperm counts have been dropping for decades, leaving at least one in five men ages 18 to 25 "subfertile," according to a study released last...

IVF Pioneer Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

STOCKHOLM (Oct. 4) -- Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in-vitro fertilization, a controversial breakthrough that ignited sharp criticism from religious leaders but helped millions of infertile couples in the last three decades have children. Edwards, an 85-year-old...

Sperm Count Down: What's Killing Off America's Semen?

(Aug. 11) -- Young men of America: Your semen is dying off. That's the ongoing warning from researchers across the country, as science continues to pile new studies onto a growing heap of evidence counting against the reproductive potential of today's 20-somethings. Obesity is the latest health woe being blamed for low...

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Vitamin C Improves Lung Function In Unborn Babies Of Pregnant Women Who Carry On Smoking

IVF babies born from frozen embryos are heavier and healthier than those born from fresh embryos, new fertility research has discovered. Read the full story here.

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Mom To Under-35 Daughters: You're Too Old To Freeze Your Eggs

Oh, how well I understand the sentiment driving the middle-aged parents featured in yesterday's New York Times story: " So Eager for Grandchildren, They're Paying the Egg-Freezing Clinic."

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Common Fertility Treatment Tied To Birth Defect Risk [STUDY]

Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself?

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Breakthrough Gene Discovery 'Could Boost Fertility' Claim Scientists

Babies with three biological parents could soon be a reality after a new Â£6m laboratory has been given the go ahead and funding to develop a unique IVF technique which uses DNA from a third party. Read the full story here.

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Sperm Ruling: B.C. Women Ordered To Share Frozen Semen

The age-old battle over sharing property from a failed relationship has taken a 21st century twist with a B.C. Supreme Court ruling involving a same sex couple who were feuding over sperm.

Fertility medicine News From the Web

05/29/12 What is the truth about IVF? Source: IOL When Marie Storey and her husband Mark were offered help in their desperate bid to have a baby, they admit that they didn't ask too many questions.
05/29/12 Liverpool fertility doctor cleared of telling mum she... Source: BBC Liverpool A TOP Liverpool fertility doctor accused of telling a would-be mum how she could choose the sex of her baby was cleared of any wrongdoing.
05/28/12 Actor's egg donor part of family Source: The Daily Telegraph - Australia Actor Jason Durr , best known as PC/DC Mike Bradley in TV series Heartbeat , his wife Kate and their three young children.
05/27/12 Fertility clinic importing sperm Source: The Kimberley Echo - Kununurra - WA - Australia A Perth fertility clinic has resorted to importing sperm because of a severe shortage of WA donors.
05/26/12 China's One-Child Policy's Unexpected Issue:... Source: Forbes - Asia Chen Guangcheng , the blind Chinese activist whose escape from a rural village set off a diplomatic tug of war between Beijing and Washington , arrived in the United States last Saturday on the United Airlines flight from Beijing to Newark.

Background on Fertility medicine

Reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) is a surgical subspecialty of obstetrics and gynecology that trains physicians in reproductive medicine addressing hormonal functioning as it pertains to reproduction as well as the issue of infertility.

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