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Poor Sperm Quality Linked to Air Pollution?

Maybe is the answer. But the study conducted by Utah reproductive endocrinologist Ahmad Hammoud showed a drop in sperm’s motility two months after air pollution was at its worst.  It is intriguing enough to warrant further study. Hammoud would like to determine what in the fine particulate matter could be causing the drop in [...]

What To Do with Frozen Embryos?

Thousands of individuals and couples face the dilemma of what to do with the unused frozen embryos after they have completed their family or either decided to stop IVF treatment and build their family using other means.  One couple I talked to has three children and 17 frozen embryos on ice. The couple do not [...]

Infertility Around the Globe

Newsweek has printed another article on infertility and this time focusing on women in developing countries and what it means for them and their families to be childless. While it is extremely difficult to go through infertility in the U.S., in some cases these women are completely shut off from society, with no one to [...]