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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: fertility clinics + fertility clinic + fertility  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Future of fertility clinic fuzzy
Hamilton Spectator, Canada - Aug 1, 2008
Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is considering opting out of funding for the city's only fertility clinic, throwing its future into question. ...
Ways of looking after your little swimmers
BirminghamMail.net, UK - 12 minutes ago
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen looked at the sperm of more than 5000 men who had attended an Aberdeen fertility clinic in recent years, ...
A frozen first (?2) in Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Jul 30, 2008
It's a concern Dr. Charles Coddington, head of Mayo's fertility clinic, hears from many of his patients. The Caudills started IVF in the fall of 2006, ...
Part one: Miracles for sale Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Fertility on ice? Banking eggs buys hope
MSNBC - Jul 30, 2008
... while researching future fertility treatments for an article I was writing, so I was excited to discover a local clinic was now offering the procedure. ...
Booze binges spark rise in sex disease
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK -
Fears were voiced last night about the spiralling number of young women putting their health and fertility at risk by having unprotected sex after ...
IntegraMed(R) Q2 Revenue Grows 46%, Drives 19% Rise in Net Income
MarketWatch - Jul 31, 2008
Nearly one of every four IVF procedures in the US is performed in an IntegraMed fertility practice. The IntegraMed Vein Clinic network is the leading ...INMD
Specialist fertility clinic opens in Boston
Boston Standard, UK - Jul 30, 2008
By Stephen Stray Wednesday, 10am - A SPECIALIST fertility clinic has been set up in Boston ? the first of its kind in Lincolnshire. CARE Fertility, the UK's ...
Pro-Life News: In-Vitro, Sex-Selection Abortions, Britain, South ...
LifeNews.com, MT -
Her results also show that among women who conceived with fertility treatment but also had another child naturally, the spontaneously conceived baby was ...VTO
The fertility tourists
guardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 29, 2008
He is also a respected fertility expert - his IVF clinic has been named among India's best - with a CV boasting a string of awards and scholarships for his ...

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Twins have brought 'wonderful chaos ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -
But we have been fortunate enough never to have had fertility problems." The other children are delighted with their new siblings, with Shiloh and Zahara ...
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… sperm chromatin structure assay as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in the human fertility clinic -
DP Evenson, LK Jost, D Marshall, MJ Zinaman, E … - Human Reproduction, 1999 - ESHRE
... structure assay as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in the human fertility clinic. ...
3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Loyola Medical Center, Maywood, IL ...

Ovarian Tumors in a Cohort of Infertile Women. -
MA Rossing, JR Daling, NS Weiss, DE Moore, SG Self - Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1995 - obgynsurvey.com
... and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington ... was composed
of 3837 women evaluated for infertility at participating clinics in Seattle ...

… Between Seminal White Blood Cell Counts and Oxidative Stress in Men Treated at an Infertility Clinic -
RK SHARMA, FF PASQUALOTTO, DR NELSON, AJ THOMAS, … - Journal of Andrology, 2001 - clevelandclinic.org
... Semen specimens were provided by 271 patients attending the male infertility clinic
at an academic medical center for infertility evaluation. ...

THE CHROMOSOMAL BASIS OF HUMAN INFERTILITY -
ANNC CHANDLEY - British Medical Bulletin, 1979 - British Council
... This fact has led to a number of cytogenic investigations being carried out on patients
attending infertility clinics, a point which will be dealt with in more ...

Long Polyglutamine Tracts in the Androgen Receptor Are Associated with Reduced Trans-Activation, … -
TG Tut, FJ Ghadessy, MA Trifiro, L Pinsky, EL Yong - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1997 - Endocrine Soc
... of the patients; Dr. Prema Raghavan and staff of the Fertility Control Clinic, National
University Hospital, for help with collecting control blood samples. ...

Klinefelter's syndrome in the male infertility clinic -
H Okada, H Fujioka, N Tatsumi, M Kanzaki, Y Okuda, … - Human Reproduction, 1999 - ESHRE
... 14, No. 4, 946-952, April 1999 ? 1999 European Society of Human Reproduction and
Embryology Klinefelter's syndrome in the male infertility clinic. ...

Evidence for decreasing quality of semen during past 50 years. -
E Carlsen, A Giwercman, N Keiding, NE Skakkebaek - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1992 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... Correlations between seminal radioimmunoreactive prolactin, sperm count, and sperm
motility in prevasectomy and infertility clinic patients. Fertil Steril. ...

Classification of normogonadotropic infertility: polycystic ovaries diagnosed by ultrasound versus … -
EJ van Santbrink, WC Hop, BC Fauser - Fertil Steril, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... DESIGN: Controlled descriptive study. SETTING: Academic tertiary care
fertility clinic. PATIENT(S): Normogonadotropic (FSH levels ...

Severe Oligozoospermia Resulting From Deletions of Azoospermia Factor Gene on Y Chromosome. -
R Reijo, RK Alagappan, P Patrizio, DC Page - Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1996 - obgynsurvey.com
... of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Male Infertility Service, Fertility
Center of San ... samples from 35 men who were seen in infertility clinics and who ...

[PDF] Relationship between oxidative stress, semen characteristics, and clinical diagnosis in men … -
FF Pasqualotto, RK Sharma, DR Nelson, AJ Thomas, A … - Presented at the 94th, 1999 - clevelandclinic.org
... Setting: Male infertility clinic of a tertiary care center. Patient(s): One hundred
sixty-seven infertile patients and 19 controls. Intervention(s): None. ...
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Clinics Might Be Overusing Sperm Injection Method In Fertility Treatments, Study Says
Fertility clinics might be overusing a laboratory technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection despite the technique's additional cost, uncertain efficacy and risks, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports (Stobbe, AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/18).

ICSI is a process in which a single sperm is placed into an egg using a syringe, and it is used when a man has a low semen count or poor sperm quality (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 7/3). The technique adds about $1,500 to the $12,400 average cost of an in vitro fertilization treatment cycle, the study's authors said (AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/18).
For the study, Tarun Jain, assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and colleagues examined data from 1995 to 2004 on fertility treatments at U.S. clinics. The study looked at all IVF cycles involving new embryos from nondonor eggs in women younger than age 43, HealthDay/Forbes reports.

According to the study, the percentage of IVF treatment cycles that used ICSI increased from 11% in 1995 to 57.5% in 2004 (HealthDay/Forbes, 7/18). Researchers also found that the proportion of couples who had difficulty conceiving because the man's sperm remained at 34% throughout the study period. The study also showed that among IVF attempts with successful egg retrievals in 2004, about 31% that used ICSI resulted in a live birth, compared with 33% for those that did not use the technique.

The study showed a higher risk of birth defects among infants conceived through ICSI, but the researchers said they are unclear whether it is the result of the technique or abnormalities in the fathers' sperm (AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/18). In addition, researchers found that ICSI rates were higher in states where insurance coverage of the technique is mandated -- including Illinois, Massachusetts and Rhode Island -- than in states without mandated coverage.

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"Despite its added cost and uncertain efficacy and risk, the use of ICSI has been extended to include patients without documented male-factor infertility," Jain said in a statement. He added that further studies are "needed to better understand the proper role of ICSI," and that "guidelines may be useful to determine what the best indications are for the use of the technology in patients without male-factor infertility" (HealthDay/Forbes, 7/18). Jain noted that he did not have specific data about each couple or each treatment attempt, making it difficult to determine whether clinics that frequently performed ICSI also had disproportionate numbers of patients with more severe cases.

Steve Ory, president of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, said that there are several reasons a clinic might use ICSI to treat an infertile couple, and that it is unclear whether the technique is being overused. According to the researchers and Ory, some clinics might use ICSI in cases where there are only a few eggs available or in cases where traditional IVF failed. Some clinics might choose to use it for all couples, believing it can increase the chance of success, the AP/Post-Intelligencer reports. "There's a lot of art to this," Ory said. Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics, said, "This paper is particularly troubling because we've got a major shift in practice that isn't evidence driven. The paper suggests it may be driven by money" (AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/18).

The study is available online.

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