Sperm
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Turkey bans trips abroad for artificial insemination
The Daily Telegraph: Health: Women's &bull Mar 15, 2010
The Turkish medical establishment has long campaigned against the practice and leading figures have voiced suspicions of sperm donations on religious and nationalistic grounds. Many of the fewer than 100 or so women who travel abroad to achieve pregnancy go… Full Story »
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How to Know When You Are Ovulating
Suite 101: Pregnancy & Childbirth &bull Mar 8, 2010
It's no surprise that some couples have difficulty conceiving, as ovulation only occurs once out of the month. Yes, it's quite true! There is often a small window of opportunity each month for a couple to successfully conceive. In this case, many women try to calculate when they are going to ovulate. A couple weeks before… Full Story »
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Reliable home male fertility test? Accurate sperm counts now possible
Science Daily: Pregnancy and Childbirth News &bull Feb 17, 2010
This is an important step towards the development of a compact device for reliable 'pre-scanning' of male fertility. Every year more than 10,000 couples in the Netherlands apply for help because of involuntary childlessness. A sperm analysis is typically the first step of fertility research. Testing sperm quality requires stringent pre-test preparations and a specialized laboratory. Tests often have to be repeated two to five times for sufficient reliability. If men can… Full Story »
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Special Deliveries (Forbes)
Yahoo! News: Pregnancy Search &bull Feb 15, 2010
Heard of Nothobranchius? Better known as annual fish, you'll find them in Africa and South America. Only, that is, if you looked for them in the rainy season; they spend their lives in rain-fed ponds and marshes. When the water dries up, they die. But before that they breed and bury their eggs under the soil, where they stay until the next rains, when, miraculously, they hatch. The younglings seem to know that the wetlands will dry out, and their lives are short. So, they quickly get down to business, and, like countless generations before them, bury their eggs. Then,… Full Story »
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Molecule that controls the speed of sperm found by scientists
The Daily Telegraph: Health: Women's &bull Feb 4, 2010
An "accelerator pedal" that controls the speed of sperm has been discovered, in a breakthrough that could be used to boost male fertility or come up with a new form of contraception. Full Story »
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Molecular regulator that controls ability of sperm to reach and fertilize the egg identified
Science Daily: Pregnancy and Childbirth News &bull Feb 4, 2010
Researchers have identified an elusive molecular regulator that controls the ability of human sperm to reach and fertilize the egg, a finding that has implications on both treating male infertility and preventing pregnancy. Full Story »
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How sperm get a move on; discovery suggests new target for male contraception
Science Daily: Pregnancy and Childbirth News &bull Feb 4, 2010
Most of us probably think of sperm as rather active little cells, swimming with quick movements of their "tail" or flagella. But actually sperm's motility is in fact short lived. When in the male reproductive tract they have to rest… Full Story »
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Strollerderby
jeanne26 &bull Feb 2, 2010
No wonder some moms are taking the same steps they took to hook a sperm donor to find their new nanny. They’re going speed dating. Full Story »
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Simple and Easy to Apply Secrets - How to Increase Your Pregnancy Chances Posted By : Shirley M. Duran
Article Dashboard: Pregnancy &bull Jan 14, 2010
There are techniques which men can use to increase the quantity of sperm, so in the day before you ovulate to be able to issue a maximum number of healthy sperm and increase your pregnancy chance. For men, this means… Full Story »
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Chimp and human Y chromosomes evolving faster than expected
Science Daily: Pregnancy and Childbirth News &bull Jan 13, 2010
The first comprehensive comparison of Y chromosomes from two species sheds new light on Y chromosome evolution. Contrary to a widely held scientific theory that the mammalian Y chromosome is slowly decaying or stagnating, new evidence suggests that in fact… Full Story »
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Utah Lawmaker Is Surrogate Mom for Gay Couple
jeanne26 &bull Jan 10, 2010
Johnson shared the story of her decision to go public with the Salt Lake Tribune last week, explaining the strict rules on adoption in her state have forced gay couples down this route. Currently adoption is forbidden to unmarried couples… Full Story »
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New Year's resolution: Have more sex
CNN: Women's Health &bull Jan 7, 2010
A soon-to-be-released study shows people who have frequent sex live longer and have healthier hearts. And that's only the tip of the iceberg. Full Story »
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Sam Taylor-Wood Announces Pregnancy
Babies Online: Pregnancy Articles &bull Jan 7, 2010
May-December romances are nothing new in Hollywood. For UK-born director Sam Taylor-Wood however, a few more eyebrows than usual may be raised with her recent announcement. According to published reports she has revealed that she is pregnant with her fianc,… Full Story »
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They Say
jeanne26 &bull Dec 29, 2009
Some fifty million men have had vasectomies in the U.S., according to the National Institutes of Health, but a new study posits at least forty-six percent of them never went back to the doc for an analysis of their semen.… Full Story »
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Tassie men rise to occasion
The Courier Mail: Health &bull Dec 27, 2009TASMANIAN men have risen to a crisis call to donate sperm after the Apple Isle's sperm bank dropped down to its four last donors. Full Story »
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Fertility treatments mean fewer boy babies
She Knows: Pregnancy & Baby Blog &bull Dec 26, 2009
New research shows that when babies are conceived through intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) the odds of having a boy are decreased. However, researchers are unclear why ICSI is reducing the amount of male births. ICSI is more typically used when… Full Story »
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Meddling in mosquitoes' sex lives could help stop the spread of malaria
Science Daily: Pregnancy and Childbirth News &bull Dec 21, 2009
Stopping male mosquitoes from sealing their sperm inside females with a 'mating plug' could prevent mosquitoes from reproducing, and offer a potential new way to combat malaria. Full Story »
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Wake up sperm with coffee
She Knows: Pregnancy & Baby Blog &bull Dec 18, 2009
Good news for all the java lovin’ men out there - it appears that caffeine makes sperm all nice and perky! According to Brazilian researchers, “Sperm motility was higher in patients who drink coffee compared to patients who do not… Full Story »
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Challenging donor anonymity: Tracing my father could save my life'
The Daily Telegraph: Health: Women's &bull Dec 18, 2009
When cancer sufferer Alison Davenport started to search for a bone-marrow donor, she was shocked to discover that she had been conceived by donor sperm. Full Story »
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Should Women Be Paid For Their Eggs?
The Baby Website &bull Dec 14, 2009
The fertility watchdog is considering offering cash to egg and sperm donors as a means of tackling the severe shortage for people desperate for a baby. Full Story »
