Ivf fertility treatment and reproductive information

Physics Today: The Royal Society has unveiled a list of the 10 most influential women scientists in UK history, with Caroline Herschel in first place.

Women scientists have discovered nebulas, the first radio pulsars, developed spray-on skin for burns victims, pioneered cancer-beating therapies, created cutting-edge computer chips, and won Nobel prizes, but as the Royal Society lauds past women scientists, their contemporaries are still facing a number of difficulties, including being asked to make the tea and take notes at meetings by their male colleagues.

A survey of US science education by the Bayer Corporation reports that significant numbers of women and underrepresented minority chemists and chemical engineers say they were discouraged from pursuing a career in science and engin…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

A study revealed men classed as infertile by IVF doctors were up to 2.6 times more likely to go on to be diagnosed hard-to-treat form of the disease as other men. (Source: the Mail online | Health)

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

A Virginia infertility clinic incited debate on Wednesday by sponsoring a contest at a London seminar in which the prize was a no-cost cycle of in vitro fertilization using eggs from a U.S. woman, the Washington Post reports. The seminar, hosted by the Genetics IVF Institute, sought to entice British women to seek donor eggs in the U.S. (Stein, Washington Post, 3/18). The AP/Boston Globe reports that some argued the contest violated the spirit, if not the letter, of a European Union law that prohibits women from being compensated for their eggs… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

A Virginia infertility clinic incited debate on Wednesday by sponsoring a contest at a London seminar in which the prize was a no-cost cycle of in vitro fertilization using eggs from a U.S. woman, the Washington Post reports. The seminar, hosted by the Genetics IVF Institute, sought to entice British women to seek donor eggs in the U.S. (Stein, Washington Post, 3/18)… (Source: Fertility News From Medical News Today)

Authors: Katzorke T, Kolodziej FB
The first step in the treatment of infertile couples in most cases is the method of intrauterine insemination (IUI), as it is less invasive than the extracorporeal procedures of ART (artificial reproductive techniques). However, in comparison to the methods of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), IUI is discussed controversially, especially in terms of effectiveness and efficacy, for the result of IUI is influenced by multiple factors. Thus, not only methodological aspects, e.g. preparation of and insertion of the prepared sperm into the genital tract, time of insemination in relation to ovulation, but also the reasons for female subfertility and sperm quality have to be taken into consideration.Based on current lit…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

Triplet births are on the increase, even when IVF pregnancies are discounted, and the death rate for triplets is 10 times higher than for single births, Norwegian scientists said on Wednesday. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

New research to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology reveals how the rate of births from triplets has increased, even after excluding pregnancies that were the result of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the form of in vitro fertilisation (IVF)… (Source: Pregnancy News From Medical News Today)

New research to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology reveals how the rate of births from triplets has increased, even after excluding pregnancies that were the result of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the form of in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Norwegian researchers examined the records of over 2 million pregnancies in the Medical Birth Registry of Norway between 1967 and 2006, to compare births from triplet pregnancies with singleton and twin pregnancies. All reported live births and stillbirths from the 16th week were looked at… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

LONDON (Reuters) – Triplet births are on the increase, even when IVF pregnancies are discounted, and the death rate for triplets is 10 times higher than for single births, Norwegian scientists said on Wednesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)