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Scientist Gets Second 1.5 Million Grant to Continue the Research of Male Infertility

Scientist Gets Second 1.5 Million Grant to Continue the Research of Male Infertility

Wei Yan, M.D., Ph.D., who is an associate professor of physiology and cell biology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, has been awarded $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health for studying the regulation of male fertility by small noncoding ribonucleic acids.

Infertile Men are 3 Times More Likely to Develop Testicular Cancer

Infertile Men are 3 Times More Likely to Develop Testicular Cancer

A study published in Archives of Internal Medicine has found a link between testicular cancer and infertility, and the findings are alarming. The study claims infertile men are almost 3 times more likely to develop testicular cancer than those who are fertile. Scientists believe there is a common cause of problems in both cases, infertility [...]

Good News for Bald Men: They have 50% Lower Chances of Developing Prostate Cancer

Finally, good news for bald men: a recent study has revealed that bald men or men with receding hairline have lesser chances of developing prostate cancer, and the chances are not small at all. Scientists have come up with results that hair loss reduces the risk of developing the disease by almost 50%. Additionally, the [...]

Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Turkish Women Struggling with Infertility: Study Results are Shocking

Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Turkish Women Struggling with Infertility: Study Results are Shocking

Most women who are struggling with infertility are prepared to do everything to become and stay pregnant. As infertility patients they are a very vulnerable group and besides that fact that artificial insemination is prohibited in Turkey and soon a law will prohibit artificial insemination treatment for Turkish couples abroad, many couples and especially women [...]

Infertility Treatments (IVF/ICSI) Increase the Risk of Stillbirths

Recently a study was published in Human Reproduction, Europe’s leading reproductive medicine journal. Study was conducted by Danish scientists. Study correlates an infertility treatment with increased incidence of stillbirths: study suggest findings that show that women who conceived naturally or after fertility treatments that did not involve IVF (in vitro fertilization) or ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm [...]

A link Between Male Infertility and Prostate Cancer: Infertility Raises Risk of More Aggressive Prostate Cancer

A new study that was conducted at the University of Washington and published in the journal Cancer suggests that male infertility increases the risk that a man develops the aggressive, potentially fatal form of prostate cancer. Dr. Thomas J. Walsh, who is an assistant professor of urology at the mentioned above University brings out that [...]

Infertility Followed by Sexual Dysfunction: Infertile Women Have more Sexual Problems

Infertility Followed by Sexual Dysfunction: Infertile Women Have more Sexual Problems

Recently a study conducted by Stanford University Medical Center in California was published in medical journal Fertility and Sterility. Researchers observed almost 120 women with infertility issues that were undergoing treatment in their infertility clinic. As a control group they observed almost 100 fertile women.  Both groups were recruited from the university gynecology clinic, and [...]

Do Birth Control Pills Cause Infertility?

Do Birth Control Pills Cause Infertility?

Information that approximately 30% of reproductive mature women think that taking oral contraceptives is the cause of infertility and potential problems of causing problems when trying to conceive, is shocking to me. The true answer to a question “Do birth control pills cause infertility” is NO, they don’t. There were several studies made in recent [...]

Glow-in-the-Dark Sperm Explains Reproduction

A team of scientists at Syracuse University created the first glow-in-the-dark sperm. They created genetic manipulation to produce fruit flies whose sperm heads glowed either red or green. Afterward they were able to track fluorescent sperm as it was traveling through the reproductive tract of a female fruit fly. This was a huge step in [...]

Eating Oily Fish can Protect Women against Endometriosis and Infertility

Eating Oily Fish can Protect Women against Endometriosis and Infertility

Harvard study published in ‘Human Reproduction’ journal suggests that eating a diet full of oily fish can protect women from endometriosis and infertility. This study was the largest to have researched the link between diet and endometriosis; it was carried out over the course of 12 years on 70,000 nurses. The research suggests that women [...]