I Completely Gamed My Insurance Company To Cover My Infertility Treatment & I Don’t F
The majority of insurance companies refuse to cover even the simplest of medical procedures if the reason behind them includes infertility. But with some fancy diagnostic coding, I managed to work around my...
New insights into sperms' swimming skills shed light on male infertility, which affects one in 20 men, and could provide a new avenue to the development of a male contraceptive pill. In a study published in the journal PLoS Genetics, researchers from Monash University, the University of...
Frida Kahlo's many haunting self-portraits have been studied by experts for decades, have attracted worldwide attention and have sold for millions of dollars at auction. Yet, despite the fact that Kahlo's work focuses largely on anatomy and failed reproduction attempts, relatively little...
Scientists have discovered an enzyme that acts as a 'fertility switch', in a study published in Nature Medicine. High levels of the protein are associated with infertility, while low levels make a woman more likely to have a miscarriage, the research has shown. The findings have implications for...
When an egg cell is being formed, the cellular machinery which separates chromosomes is extremely imprecise at fishing them out of the cell's interior, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have discovered. The unexpected degree of trial-and-error...
A common gene mutation that causes sperm to lose its protective protein coat so it falls prey to the female immune system on its journey to the egg, may be the main reason for infertility in men worldwide, writes an international team of researchers in a paper published in the journal Science...
The American Fertility Association, a 501(c)(3) national non-profit organization, recognizes the holiday season can be difficult for hopeful parents. Expectations often outweigh the reality, old family dynamics can re-emerge, and the focus on kids can be extremely painful for those experiencing...
Obese women have a well-known risk for infertility, but a new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study has unraveled what investigators there believe is the mechanism that accounts for the risk. The research, conducted in mice and published online on Sept. 8 in the journal Cell Metabolism, shows...
UroToday.com - The perceived benefits of robotic surgery in terms of elimination of tremor, field magnification, motion scaling, ergonomic surgeon controls and ergonomic surgeon posturing are likely to have an even greater impact in the field of microsurgery than laparoscopy. When the standard...
A New York Medical College physician who specializes in restoring or preserving fertility in female cancer patients has discovered a possible link between the presence of breast cancer genes and infertility. In a paper published last week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Kutluk Oktay, M.D...
My girlfriend has a couple fibroid tumors on her uterus and I am worried about it. Are they difficult to remove? Can they cause infertility if her uterus is still intact? Has anyone out there had personal experiences with this?
From the time I was 14, I had to take antibiotics that sometimes caused a yeast infection. I've probably had 5 in the past 7 years. I never did treat them with any kind of medicine. I am just curious if by not treating them can it cause scarred tissue or endometriosis, and make me in fertile...
A few months ago I was diagnosed with a bacterial infection I think it was bacterial vaginosis, anyway they said it wasn't a STD. I think I had it for a long time before that... and I think it either never fully went a way or came back... and I read that it can lead to PID, which can cause...
for the in vitro fertilization of 8 fertilized eggs in a woman who already had six children.......
All eight babies are now hospitalized and will likely be there for several months.
Don't really care: Yeah, I guess like going to Denny's to get a free breakfast is something that really matters...