What is endometriosis?
Dr. Xiaoming Guan explains endometriosis, a condition that causes a painful lifestyle and other potential health and social issues.
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Fertility
Fertility and cancer survivors: Medicine’s growing pains
Knowing that most pediatric patients will overcome cancer, it’s essential to discuss its implications on future fertility.
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Image of the Month: a young uterus
The image shows a cross-section of a uterus from a 3-week-old mouse.
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Embryo swap scandal reinforces role of genetic counselors
In what should have been the best moment of her life, a New York woman looked down at her newborn twins for the first time
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The cost to reproduce: When finances affect medical and ethical choices
In the early days of assisted reproductive technology (ART), treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) were considered experimental and elective – those who could
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Follistatin: a key player in embryo implantation
The complex process of embryo implantation in the uterus has raised interest among researchers in the field in part because it fails in about half
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Changes in NLRP genes may be an answer to unexplained female infertility
Scientists estimate that as many as 15 percent of couples with infertility and 50 percent of women with recurrent pregnancy loss do not have a
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Mouse Gata2 gene can affect female fertility and uterine susceptibility to cancer
Determining the cause of infertility can be a complex matter. Infertility may be the result of a problem in one or several of the multiple
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Narrowing down genes involved in male fertility
A couple’s fertility depends on both the female’s and male’s ability to reproduce, which relies on thousands of genes working properly. Around the world, infertility
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What you need to know about infertility
Discussing infertility can be difficult, even though it’s an issue that many people experience. National Infertility Awareness Week kicked off on April 25, and physicians
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