One third of American women of childbearing age are battling obesity, a condition that affects their health and their chances of getting pregnant. Obese women often have poor reproductive outcomes, but the reasons why have not been clearly identified. Now, a novel study gains further insight into the underlying mechanisms. The study was published online on September 11 in the …
One of the misconceptions about fertility treatment in our book, "Conceptions & Misconceptions" is the notion that "more is not necessarily better; better is better." In other words, quality is more important than quantity. This is especially important when considering embryos.
When a couple ends a cycle with poor quality embryos the focus is usually on the eggs. But now …
For a long time we have been able to assess a man's sperm quality by looking at the number of sperm, the effective motility of the sperm and the shape of the sperm to evaluate a man's fertility potential. But we now know that what we can see only tells us part of the story. In recent years a lot …