Chlamydia screening is not cost-effective

SCREENING for the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia seems to make perfect sense. Most carriers of the bacterium show no symptoms at first, so testing is the only way doctors can identify who needs treatment and so help protect women from the pelvic inflammatory disease or infertility that can result.

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In the next two weeks, Shannon and Paul Morell will meet their baby boy for the first time after the woman who was wrongly implanted with their frozen embryo gives birth.

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The LIA Foundation position paper calls for: · A moratorium on all genetically modified foods · Research to evaluate the role of GM foods on autism, Lyme disease, and related conditions

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The advent of increasing fertility options raises moral concerns that vary widely by religion, said researchers and theologians at the second annual Oncoferility Summit that the consortium hosted last week in Evanston.

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Article about the change in status of a study claiming to be able to make sperm from embryonic stem cells

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ScienceDaily (July 27, 2009) — A genetic mutation that lies behind one type of male infertility has been discovered by researchers at Oxford University, Ghent University in Belgium, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the USA.

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The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

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Could a British discovery on creating sperm in a lab mean an end to infertility, or an end to the need for men?

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Suffering from infertility? Maybe your man's computer is to blame.

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The Farmer Suicide Belt of India

Farmer Suicides, the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal, Wal-Mart in India and Monsanto

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A former leukaemia patient who had his sperm frozen as a teenager has fathered a baby after doctors successfully thawed his sample a record 22 years later.

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The Nadya Suleman case has caused some understandable backlash, but the calls for severe limitations on fertility treatments are misguided.

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Chemicals used to manufacture a variety of household items from clothing to food packaging to upholstery may make it harder for women to become pregnant, a new study suggests.

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Evidence suggests that human male fertility is impacted by long-term exposure to marijuana.

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More than 57,000 people have become infected with the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia in the last year. Chlamydia does not have many symptoms, but it causes infertility in men and women.

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Every day I see them, wedged between the mustard and half-empty jar of capers in my refrigerator. They're the shots that could make me pregnant.

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A long-term study from the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, managed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health, Family and Youth, and carried out by Veterinary University Vienna, confirms genetically modified (GM) corn has seriously effects on reproductive health in mi …

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---Never mind cancer or heart disease for a moment. Here are some nonobvious reasons to snub cigarettes---

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English version of report written by Fédération du Québec pour le planning des naissances about technologies used to help people get pregnant. Discusses myths of fertility, infertility and assisted human reproduction, and describes specific methods of assisting reproduction.

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Infants conceived with techniques commonly used in fertility clinics are two to four times more likely to have certain birth defects than are infants conceived naturally, a new study has found.

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A new vaccine to eliminate the Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) -- which is linked to some cervical cancers -- will soon be on the market, but concerns over its side effects are emerging.

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Men, beware: Using a hands-free device with a cell phone may affect your fertility if you keep your phone close to your testicles, Cleveland Clinic researchers warn in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

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PREGNANT women have been advised to avoid using perfumes or scented body creams after research suggested the products can cause unborn boys to suffer infertility or cancer in later life.

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IN 1965, the population of Italy was 52 million, of which 4.6 million, or just under 9 percent, were children younger than 5. A decade later, that age group had shrunk to 4.3 million - about 7.8 percent of Italians. By 1985, it was down to 3 million and 5.3 percent.

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Men working as painters and decorators who are exposed to glycol ethers are more likely to have poor semen quality, according to research carried out by scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester.

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With the advent of advanced reproductive technologies, fertility experts debate whether male infertility should even be treated.

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