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Reproduction industry risks: infertility treatments increase risk of stillbirths

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(NaturalNews) The multi-billion dollar medical reproductive technology industry has resulted in the births of millions of kids. They were conceived through non-natural procedures including in vitro fertilization (IVF), also known as the process that produces test tube babies, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), which involves injecting a single sperm into an egg in the laboratory. But more and more problems are being linked to these high tech baby-making techniques. For example, as NaturalNews previously reported, evidence is mounting that children conceived using some assisted reproductive technologies have an increased incidence of metabolic problems, such as high blood pressure, abnormally elevated fasting glucose levels and excess body fat (http://www.naturalnews.com/026863_…div id=medwormpbiMedWorm Message:/i/b Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm ba href=http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29t=Swine+Fluf=infectiousdiseasesr=Anyo=d target =_selfSwine Flu RSS news feed/a/b – updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources./p/div

New York Times Profiles In Vitro Fertilization Pioneer Jones

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The New York Times on Tuesday profiled surgeon Howard Jones, who, together with his wife, Georgeanna Seegar Jones, collaborated on the first U.S. in vitro fertilization procedure that led to the birth of an infant. Now 99 years old, Jones first began reproductive science work at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, where he performed sex change operations and worked with British scientist Robert Edwards to produce the first fertilized human oocyte in 1965. Jones opened an IVF clinic in 1979… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

IVF for premature ovarian failure: first reported births using oocytes donated from a twin sister

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Conclusion:
POF is believed to affect approximately 1% of reproductive age females, and POF patients with a sister who can be an oocyte donor for IVF are rare. Most such IVF patients will conceive from treatment using oocytes from an anonymous oocyte donor. This is the first report of births following sister-donor oocyte IVF in Ireland. Indeed, while sister-donor IVF has been successfully undertaken by IVF units elsewhere, this is the only known case where oocyte donation involved twin sisters. As with all types of donor gamete therapy, pre-treatment counselling is important in the circumstance of sister oocyte donation. (Source: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology)

Tubal Reversal Vs. IVF

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Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center (www.tubal-reversal.net) Medical Director, Dr. Gary Berger, discusses the pros and cons of tubal reversal vs. IVF with a couple wanting a baby after a tubal ligation. (Source: Tubal Ligation Reversal News)

The influence of sperm concentration, length of the gamete co-culture and the evolution of different sperm parameters on the in vitro fertilization of prepubertal goat oocytes.

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In conclusion, we suggest that a gamete co-incubation for 12-14 h, with a concentration of 4 x 106 sperm/ml, would be sufficient to obtain the highest rate of penetration, reducing the exposure of oocytes to high levels of reactive oxygen species produced by spermatozoa, especially when a high sperm concentration is used to increase the caprine IVF outcome.
PMID: 20334721 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Zygote)

Sher Institute Donating Free IVF Cycles At Upcoming Seminars

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Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine (SIRM) is donating free In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatments at upcoming seminars in New Jersey, Texas and Pennsylvania. The initiative reflects Sher Institute’s desire to help patients who are in need of treatment but can’t afford it during these tough economic times. Sher Institute plans to roll out the free cycle program to all of the SIRM centers around the country… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)div id=medwormpbiMedWorm Message:/i/b Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm ba href=http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29t=Swine+Fluf=infectiousdiseasesr=Anyo=d target =_selfSwine Flu RSS news feed/a/b – updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources./p/div

Sher Institute Donating Free IVF Cycles At Upcoming Seminars

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Combined analysis of endometrial thickness and pattern in predicting outcome of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer: a retrospective cohort study

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Conclusion:
Combined analysis of endometrial thickness and pattern on the day of hCG administration was a better predictor of the outcome of IVF/ICSI-ET and may be more helpful for patient counseling than the separate analyses. (Source: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology)

Prostate cancer ‘linked to fertility’

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Conclusion
This large registry-based study has suggested that infertile men may be at increased risk of high-grade prostate cancer. There are a number of points to note:

This study relied on data recorded as part of routine practice. Some data may have been misrecorded, and some information may be missing. For example, men who moved out of California and were diagnosed with cancer would not have been identified. This may affect the reliability of the results.
As the authors themselves note, some other studies have found no link between fertility and risk of prostate cancer. This may be because these studies relied on lack of offspring to indicate infertility, and all men without children are not necessarily infertile.
As with all observational studies, it is possible that other fa…

Discontinuation of rLH two days before hCG may increase the number of oocytes retrieved in IVF

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Conclusions:
When using rLH for controlled ovarian hyperstimulation, administering it from the start of stimulation and stopping it in the late follicular phase, at least two days prior to hCG trigger, may increase oocyte and embryo yield. (Source: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology)