11 percent of women has used morning after pill
The morning-after pill has risen in popularity in the United States, a new report reveals. In fact, about 11 percent of all sexually active women have used emergency contraception between...
Time-lapse technique can improve IVF success rates
IVF success rates could be improved enormously through the use of time-lapse imaging, scientists from the United Kingdom revealed in Reproductive BioMedicine Online. The study team, from the CARE fertility...
Embyo/Endometrium communication holds key to IVF success?
How fertile are you? That might just depend on the definition of "fertile" some women are perfectly able to conceive, that is to have an egg fertilized, but the early...
Acupuncture as an infertility treatment?
We've all heard of acupuncture a treatment method that involves inserting really thin needles into strategic points of the skin. Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years to treat...
Warning: Anemia during pregnancy linked to autism
Iron deficiency is more common during pregnancy. Your blood volume goes up by 50 percent, and your baby and placenta also need additional iron. What's more, the body often doesn't...
Increase Fertility in Women
Medical treatments to increase fertility in women are expensive, time-consuming, and often heart-breaking, but sometimes what is needed is the addition of a carefully considered natural method to treat female...
Drinking alcohol in pregnancy yes or no?
Eighty percent of all pregnant women in Australia drink during pregnancy, a study that was published today in the Medical Journal of Australia claims. The study did not just look...
Woman Gives Birth In Her Late 50s
Recently a 58-year-old woman who has conceived with the help of IVF has given birth to a baby boy in Kerala. Both baby and mother are healthy and doing fine...
New test could double IVF success rate
Here's another piece of IVF news, which would make two very important developments in IVF treatments this week. Not only did a new study find that IVF increases the risk...
Using a sperm bank
There are many reasons different people choose to enlist the help of a sperm bank to conceive a baby. Male factor infertility is one of them, lesbian couples or single...