News tagged with fertility level


Couples to rely on male contraceptive for new trial

Couples to rely on male contraceptive for new trial

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Couples are being asked to replace their usual form of birth control with a new male contraceptive in a study to test its effectiveness.





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Challenging conventional wisdom: Advances in development reverse fertility declines

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Università Bocconi in Milan have released a study that challenges one of the most established and accepted standards in the social sciences: Human fertility ...


Scientists study China's one-child policy

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 23, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

U.S. scientists conducting the first systematic examination of China's fertility policy are warning of a possible demographics crisis in that nation.


Living with females extends the reproductive life of the male mouse

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created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent, according to a study conducted by Ralph Brinster and a team of other researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School ...


Semen quality depends upon antioxidants

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A possible relationship between men's diets and the quality of their semen has long been a discussion point. Spanish researchers have now confirmed that antioxidants, molecules which are found mainly in fruit and vegetables ...


Young early stage ovarian cancer patients can preserve fertility

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study finds that young women with early-stage ovarian cancer can preserve future fertility by keeping at least one ovary or the uterus without increasing the risk of dying from the disease. The study is published in ...


'The pill' for him: Scientists find a hormonal on-and-off switch for male fertility

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new research report published in the December 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal could one day give men similar type of control over their fertility that women have had since the 1960s. That's because scientists have f ...


New hormone data can predict menopause within a year

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

For many women, including the growing number who choose later-in-life pregnancy, predicting their biological clock's relation to the timing of their menopause and infertility is critically important.


Proteins in sperm unlock understanding of male infertility says new study

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created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Proteins found in sperm are central to understanding male infertility and could be used to determine new diagnostic methods and fertility treatments according to a paper published by the journal Molecular and Cellular Pr ...


Anthropologist examines stigma of infertility in Nigeria

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In sub-Saharan Africa, the issue of infertility is often obscured by the region's high fertility rates. Though problematic, particularly for women, little is known about how different regions understand and respond to infertility ...


Scottish mothers have fewer children than other UK women

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created Dec 07, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fertility in Scotland is below that of other countries and regions in the UK. In comparison with their English neighbours, Scottish women leave longer gaps between their children and are more likely to stop at two children. ...



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