Fertility & Having Children
This column highlights activities submitted by ASRM Members from countries outside the United States.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 17, 2013
Wife: "I’ve done my share. It’s your turn now.”Husband: “If you leave me in the next five years, I’ll really feel like I sacrificed myself for nothing.”
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 17, 2013
The fact is fertility decreases with age and this process accelerates at a much faster rate the older you get.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 17, 2013
Nearly half of all infertility cases involve men, yet it’s often perceived as a woman’s issue according to local patient advocacy groups.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 14, 2013
Is Dad stressed? It may not be a good thing for your future children. It turns out that sperm is affected by stress, whether experienced as a preadolescent or adult, and could give any sons or daughters a blunted reaction to stress--a response is associated with several mental disorders.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 12, 2013
Danish researchers have just published findings that explain a previously unknown mechanism used by cells to communicate with one another. The research significantly contributes to understanding why some children are born with malformations and why children and adults may develop life-threatening diseases.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 12, 2013
Our nation presents a very complicated state-by-state legal quilt on donor insemination. But one thing is consistent throughout the country: No matter where you live, the informal, friendly, at-home donation method is a bad idea. The casual use of a friend's sperm almost always leads to unwanted legal consequences.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 11, 2013
When Christa Dias became pregnant, she was a computer teacher for two schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Holy Family and St. Lawrence. She shared the good news with her principal when she was ready to plan her maternity leave, at five and a half months. Her principal congratulated her, but other school and church officials did not think the impending birth of this particular child was cause for celebration, because Dias is not married. She was fired three days later.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 11, 2013
A three-week-old baby, will never get to meet her father, who died of cancer six years ago. Neither has her mother ever met the man – she underwent the first artificial insemination in Israel from a deceased man's sperm. The man's parents chose the woman to be the mother of their granddaughter.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 10, 2013
Scientists at USC have unlocked the mystery of why new cases of the genetic disease Noonan Syndrome are so common: a mutation that causes the disease disproportionately increases a normal father’s production of sperm carrying the disease trait.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 10, 2013
Scientists at the Danish Stem Cell Center, DanStem, at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that they can make embryonic stem cells regress to a stage of development where they are able to make placenta cells as well as the other fetal cells. This significant discovery, published in the journal Cell Reports today, has the potential to shed new light on placenta related disorders that can lead to problematic pregnancies and miscarriages.