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27 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
IntegraMed America, Inc. (NASDAQ: INMD), the leader in developing, marketing and managing specialty healthcare facilities in the fertility and vein care markets, announced it had entered into an agreement with Austin Fertility Institute to begin offering IntegraMed's Attain® IVF Programs to Austin Fertility Institute's patients...
26 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
Some 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...
26 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
Thirty-two years ago today, the world's first baby was born after in vitro fertilisation. However, the work that led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978 had to be privately funded after the UK's Medical Research Council decided in 1971 against providing the Cambridge physiologist Robert Edwards and the Oldham gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe with long-term financial support...
25 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
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...
23 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
Researchers 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...
22 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
University of California, Riverside biologists working on guppies - small freshwater fish that have been the subject of long-term studies - report that rapid growth responses to increased food availability after a period of growth restriction early in life have repercussions in adulthood...
20 Jul 2010 at 10:00am
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...
20 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
Infertility 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...
20 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
Women 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...
20 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
Univfy, a pioneer in the development of personalized in vitro fertilization (IVF) prognostic tools, announced the publication of new research findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by its founding scientific team and clinical collaborators from Stanford University...
18 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
Leading experts in the fields of gynecology, reproductive endocrinology, hematology and epidemiology have affirmed that for most women the low absolute risks of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) are outweighed by the well-established benefits of hormonal contraception...
15 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
For Claudia Santorelli-Bates it seemed like the obvious choice to talk to her own children about how they were conceived through the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF)...
15 Jul 2010 at 5:00am
Researchers 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...
9 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
As 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...
8 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
The 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...
