News tagged with ovaries
New study questions routine removal of ovaries along with hysterectomy
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Women who have their healthy ovaries removed when they have a hysterectomy face a higher risk of death, including death from coronary heart disease and lung cancer, than women who keep their ovaries, according to new research.
New method of assessing women's eggs could enhance IVF success, study shows
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Many couples who have trouble conceiving a child have turned to a process known as in vitro fertilization. The resulting embryos are then transferred back into the woman or placed in storage. More than 400,000 embryos are ...
Study shows younger women with endometrial cancer can safely keep ovaries, avoid early menopause
Jan 28, 2009 |
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In the largest study to date on the safety of ovarian preservation in women aged 45 and younger who were surgically treated for early-stage endometrial cancer, researchers have found that there is no survival benefit associated ...
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Mouse ovaries and testes age in unique ways
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Jun 03, 2008 |
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Aging leads to large changes in gene activity in the ovaries of mice, but only limited changes in testes, according to research published in the open-access journal, BMC Biology. A lifespan-extending calorie-restricted diet ...
New photo 'op' for ovaries may solve some mysteries of infertility
Jun 19, 2008 |
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What causes a woman's eggs to deteriorate in quality with age, and can that be reversed?How does the ovary choose an egg -- out of a stash of roughly one million -- to release for ovulation? And can the ovary be influenced ...
THC exposure as adolescents linked to negative effects of THC as adults
Apr 19, 2009 |
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In earlier studies, researchers at Louisiana State University had found that estrogen - or more precisely, having ovaries - made adult rats exposed for the first time to THC, the primary ingredient in marijuana and hashish, ...
Uterine cells produce their own estrogen during pregnancy
Jul 20, 2009 |
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For decades, scientists assumed that the ovary alone produced steroid hormones during pregnancy. In a new study in mice, however, researchers demonstrate that once an embryo attaches to the uterine wall, the ...
Doctors say more ovary transplants possible
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors announced Monday.
Study suggests chemotherapy diminishes fertility in breast cancer patients
May 30, 2008 |
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Pre-menopausal breast cancer survivors who were treated with chemotherapy following surgery were more likely to have diminished ovarian reserve - the capacity of the ovaries to provide eggs capable of being fertilized - compared ...
Brain's role in menopause to be studied
Feb 20, 2007 |
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The U.S. National Institute on Aging is funding a five-year, $1.4 million research project to study how the brain might control the timing of menopause.
Some radiation therapy treatments can decrease fertility
Apr 01, 2009 |
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In female cancer patients of reproductive age, radiation treatment directly to the ovaries should be avoided because there is a direct relationship between certain types of radiation therapy and fertility problems, according ...
First IVM babies born in United Kingdom
Oct 25, 2007 |
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The first babies in the United Kingdom to be conceived by in vitro maturation without fertility drugs -- have been born.
Female embryonic sexual development driven by universal factor
Nov 13, 2008 |
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A gene essential to the growth and development of most organ systems in the body also is vital to female – but not male – embryonic sexual development, scientists report this month.
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