A new study from Harvard University found that men who smoke marijuana had significantly higher sperm counts than men who do not smoke marijuana. The findings were published last week in the journal Human Reproduction.
The researchers looked at 662 men at the Massachusetts General Hospital Fertility Center between the years 2000 and 2017. From the men enrolled in …
A new startup company, Dadi, is now offering the first mail-in fertility test for men. This new fertility test just came onto the market in the continental United States last week. Dadi, a fertility startup company of eight employees, raised approximately 2 million dollars to develop the test and get it onto the market.
The test is essentially a semen …
The first known human trial of three-person in vitro fertilization (IVF), a procedure currently banned in the United States, is about to be underway in Greece. The goal of the trial is to evaluate the procedure’s safety and efficacy. It may also eventually give us a better understanding regarding the procedure’s long term side effects.
Three-person IVF involves using donor …
Recently, Time magazine, wrote a series of articles about infertility, fertility treatments, and the future of babies as medical advancements allow couples more opportunities for conception. One of these articles discussed the creation of “designer babies” from in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).
The medical community and the public are concerned that with advances in PGD technology, we …
According to new a report release by the National Center for Health Statistics, fertility rates in the United States are continuing to decline and we have now reached a point where the number of new babies born is below what’s needed for the population to replace itself.
For the population to be able to replace itself, the “total fertility rate” …
A new year often gets people in the mood to make changes in their lives to improve their health, reduce stress, and find better balance in their lives. The new year provides hope and a fresh start to reaching these goals. Common new year’s resolutions like “eating better”, “exercising more”, and “losing weight”, may not only help a person improve …
There are many lifestyle factors that can affect male fertility, including smoking and drinking. Identifying some of these modifiable risk factors can be important for couples, since male infertility plays a role for over one-third of couples who are struggling to conceive.
A review of how smoking and drinking can affect male fertility was recently presented online at UrologyTimes.com by …
There are many lifestyle factors and medical conditions that can affect a person’s fertility, including having had a sexually transmitted infection in the past. When trying to conceive, most people aren’t thinking about the sexually transmitted infection they had years ago, but that infection may have impacted their fertility potential. Infections, such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV, and herpes have all …
When most people think about in vitro fertilization (IVF), they think of its use as a treatment for infertility. IVF can also be used to treat non-infertility conditions though. A growing space for the use of IVF is to use it as a treatment to reduce or eliminate inherited diseases from a family’s blood line.
Eliminating the risk of passing …
At the top of the news headlines this week are stories about former first lady, Michelle Obama, opening up about miscarriage and needing in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive her daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama.
In her memoir, “Becoming,” she discusses the personal struggles she faced when trying to start a family. In an interview with Good Morning America, she …
