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Looking at infertiity rates in the wake of Trump administration officials, like top health nominee RFK Jr., claiming that it is on the rise.
The variant accelerates reproductive aging, leading to a greater number of abnormal eggs.
Actress Florence Pugh discussed living with PCOS and endometriosis, and her decision to freeze her eggs at 27 years old.
Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.
Rapamycin has gotten a lot of press as a potential drug to extend fertility by up to five years
Despite Donald Trump proclaiming himself a leader on “fertilization,” Senate Republicans voted down a bill to protect access to IVF treatments nationwide for the *second* time this year.
Roberts goes deep into criticizing people without children
Veterans and active military members are only eligible for fertility care if they can prove their infertility was caused by their service
Writer Lisa McCarty tells her arduous, ten-year journey to having two children. It included four embryo transfers and four miscarriages.
Thirty-five can be seen as the age that fertility goes way downhill, but the BBC interviews experts who explain that like much of medicine, it’s a spectrum and the best data shows probabilities—not hard cut-offs.
Alabama’s statehouse passed emergency IVF legislation Wednesday night, giving health care professionals protection from civil and criminal penalties for destroying embryos.
A PhD student studying fertility care access, argues that it is discriminatory to keep women from getting IVF procedures because their BMI is “too high.”
Biden and Berry visited the University of Illinois-Chicago as part of the White House’s initiative on women’s health research. The university research is specifically focused on hot flashes and sleep, and how estrogen affects the brain.
Researchers at UC San Diego announced they were able to identify the best performing embryos using “exRNA” cellular material that is left behind in the petri dish.
A study finds women with higher self-reported stress levels during fertility treatments were more likely to have high blood sugar during pregnancy.
Danish study of over 327,000 children found there was no association between BMI and children born using IVF or ovulation induction versus without any fertility treatments.
A new Illinois state law takes effect next year allowing residents to bring a fraud case against health care providers who used their own “human reproductive cells” during treatment without a patient’s consent.