Infertility News

• Oklahoma Bill Would Ban Almost All Abortions at Fertilization That goes beyond what other states have done in shortening the time period in which women could legally obtain abortions.
  WebMD Health News, May 20, 2022
• Roe v. Wade's Pending Fall Raises Privacy Concerns If Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion becomes illegal, can criminal prosecutors or tech companies monitor period and fertility tracking apps, smartphone location data, and social media accounts?
  WebMD Health News, May 20, 2022
• ACOG Drops 2023 New Orleans Meeting Over Abortion Concerns Nation's largest OB-GYN group said holding its annual conference in a state where evidence-based care is banned is "at odds with our mission and values"; called on other organizations to follow lead.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• FEATURE-Kids Later Than Sooner. South Korean Women Freeze Eggs as Child-rearing Costs Surge In South Korea, fewer women are having children and those who do are in no rush. The sky-high costs of housing and education make financial security a must. Social mores also dictate the need to be married.
  Reuters Health Information, May 13, 2022
• Rodent Testicular Tissue Successfully Implanted After Being Frozen for 20 Years In a development that might one day help boys getting treatment for cancer, researchers showed that rat testicular tissue implanted in a mouse after being cryopreserved for 20 years could colonize recipient testes and generate cell types necessary for sperm production, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, May 10, 2022
• Colorado Law Would Lift Veil of Secrecy on Sperm Donations First-of-its-kind legislation would make identities and medical histories of sperm donors available to offspring and limit the number of families that can emanate from a single donor.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2022
• Motherhood Deferred: US Median Age for Giving Birth Hits 30 As an older parent celebrating Mother's Day on Sunday, Jacobs feels she has more resources for her son, 9, than she would have had in her 20s.
  Associated Press, May 06, 2022
• Three-Parent IVF Now Legal in Two Countries To prevent babies from inheriting rare, potentially fatal diseases, a variation of in vitro fertilization (IVF) uses genetic material from three people.
  WebMD Health News, May 06, 2022
• Emergency Contraception Marks a New Battle Line in Texas In the shadow of Texas' austere abortion regulations, grassroots organizers employ stealth tactics to help young women get emergency contraception.
  Kaiser Health News, April 28, 2022
• Infertility Linked to Increased Heart Failure Risk A history of infertility was linked to an elevated heart failure risk in the future among participants in the Women's Health Initiative, particularly heart failure with preserved, but not reduced, ejection fraction.
  Medscape Medical News, April 21, 2022
• How Effective Are Sterilization Procedures? Study Raises Questions Two common procedures led to pregnancy in 6% of women who used them, according to new 5-year findings that surprised researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, April 21, 2022
• New Documentary Probes 'the Pill' Use is widespread: 12 million women are currently on the pill, and 80% of women have used it at some point in their life.
  WebMD Health News, April 11, 2022
• Little-known Offshoot of Hem/Onc Opens Up Career Development As awareness of vascular anomalies grows and research on effective treatments continues, this natural offshoot of hematology and oncology offers a fertile area for career development.
  Medscape Medical News, April 07, 2022
• Little Difference in Child Growth After Assisted Reproduction Among offspring conceived using assisted reproductive technology (ART) versus natural conception, early small differences in height/weight were attenuated by their late teens, in a global meta-analysis.
  First Look, April 05, 2022
• US Nears 1M COVID Deaths; Hard-Hit County Grapples With Loss Mifflin has one of the highest covid death rates among US counties with at least 40,000 people, according to government data.
  Kaiser Health News, April 01, 2022
• 3-D Printed Testicular Cells as a Possible Infertility Treatment For the first time, researchers have 3-D printed human testicular cells and identified early signs of sperm-producing capabilities.
  Reuters Health Information, March 30, 2022
• Red States Push Strident Abortion Bans; Others Are Less Extreme What is the ultimate goal of the anti-abortion movement? It might be surprising.
  Kaiser Health News, March 30, 2022
• mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Show No Impact on IVF Success Rates mRNA COVID-19 vaccines do not appear to affect the outcomes of in vitro fertilization, a new study from Israel finds.
  Reuters Health Information, March 18, 2022
• Insurance Mandates Drive Genetic Testing and Sex Selection in IVF Previous studies have shown associations between IVF insurance coverage and various IVF practice patterns, but trends in genetic testing according to state-mandated insurance have not been explored.
  Medscape Medical News, March 17, 2022
• Genomic Analysis Reveals Possible Role of AMH in PCOS Infertility A genomic study has revealed new insights into the function of anti-Müllerian hormone in the context of reproductive biology and fertility.
  Medscape Medical News, March 16, 2022