Fertility & Assisted Reproduction

1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (355+ words) CHENNAI: With the annual registered births in Tamil Nadu declining steadily and the ageing population increasing, the state government, for the first time in the country, has initiated the process of integrating infertility care into the family welfare programme, which…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago   (460+ words) China will maintain a relatively ample workforce and will press ahead with efforts to build a fertility-friendly society, Lei Haichao, minister of the National Health Commission, said on Monday. China's total population has declined for four consecutive years, but the…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago   (447+ words) Fertility provider Adora Fertility has partnered with independent creative and production company Chisel to launch a new campaign designed to shift the conversation around sperm donation and help address Australia’s ongoing donor shortage. Built around a series of deliberately awkward…...

11+ hour, 4+ min ago   (362+ words) Chelsea Football Club will fund egg freezing and fertility treatment for its female players, becoming the first Women's Super League club to do so. The club has set up a fertility fund worth at least £189,000, thought to be the largest…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (176+ words) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KOKH) — Oklahoma's Teen birth Rate has dropped out of the Nation's top 5 for the first time in over a decade. The state's teen birth rate has fallen 49% since 2014, bringing the state out of the nation's top five,…...

7+ hour, 11+ min ago   (912+ words) Acetaminophen has long occupied an unusual place in pregnancy: when a pregnant woman has a fever, headache or significant pain, it is often the over-the-counter medicine she is told she can use. So a new study linking prenatal acetaminophen exposure…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (401+ words) Various myths surround what happens in a man's body when he goes without sex for an extended period. There's talk of loss of libido, sperm congestion, and erectile dysfunction. What's true and what's not–FITBOOK asked a urologist. Sperm congestion,…...

8+ hour, 12+ min ago   (470+ words) Exposure to Tylenol’s active ingredient while in the womb may potentially impact reproductive organ development in young girls, according to a new study from across the Atlantic. Copenhagen Analgesic’s (COPANA) study found that girls exposed to the drug paracetamol in…...

1+ day, 3+ min ago   (756+ words) Kenya's fertility rates are on a decline.[Courtesy] At a time when Kenya's fertility rates are on a decline, stakeholders have called for the government's interventions to reverse the trend. Many men and women are reeling under the weight of…...

22+ hour, 58+ min ago   (354+ words) The Scottish government has launched a review of NHS access to IVF treatment to consider whether it should be extended to single women and couples who have children from previous relationships. As well as widening eligibility, the review will consider…...