""Since unfortunately infertility rates are on the rise, many people know someone going through infertility.
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"Perhaps one of the most challenging things about infertility is that 'infertility' is a broad category," she says.
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An estimated 15% of couples experience infertility at some point and sometimes, there is no explanation for infertility.
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More than 45 million couples worldwide experience infertility and more than 40 percent of those cases involve male infertility.
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Sixteen states require insurers to offer or cover infertility services to some extent, according to infertility advocacy organization Resolve.
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The New Jersey Infertility Mandate, passed back in 2001, requires all insurance providers that provide pregnancy-related benefits to pay for infertility diagnosis and treatment — unless the individual struggling with infertility is part of a same-sex couple.
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All of these men were patients at an infertility clinic and had been having infertility issues for a year or longer.
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The anchor had a miscarriage last winter and has been affected by secondary infertility -- infertility that happens after already having a baby.
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While Gilead has been blaming women for infertility (a common historical blame), American scientists discovered that the recent infertility decline actually affects men.
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"Today" meteorologist Dylan Dreyer also shared about her struggle with secondary infertility and a recent miscarriage as part of National Infertility Awareness Week.
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Oftentimes, though male infertility contributes to more than half of all cases of global childlessness, infertility issues are assumed to be women's issues.
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If gonorrhea goes untreated, it can cause infertility or chronic pelvic pain in women and, in rare cases, testicular pain and infertility for men.
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Infertility is largely considered to be a women's issue, but male infertility can affect at least one-third of couples who are struggling to conceive.
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In order to get any kind of Veterans Health Administration infertility care, a woman veteran must be able to show that her infertility is service connected.
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Dr. Missmer says that previous studies may have overestimated the link to infertility because most only looked at women already diagnosed with infertility and/or endometriosis.
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Male infertility is an often-invisible part of the growing conversation around infertility, which impacts 15% of couples in the US, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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One year ago, for Infertility Awareness Week, CNN spoke with these couples about their infertility experiences and the variety of ways they hoped to build their families.
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He explained that he and his fellow infertility doctors have become increasingly sensitive to the fact that much of the American population simply can't afford infertility treatment.
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The hope is that this gene hacking could help researchers better understand what causes miscarriages and infertility — and perhaps one day lead to better treatments for infertility.
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Chavarro and Willett say the diet recommendations are specific to women with ovulation-related infertility and not infertility related to blocked fallopian tubes or low sperm production.
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"I have never felt more alone in my life then when I was going through infertility," says Wohl, who has since become a leading speaker on infertility issues.
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Around one in four women with infertility have unexplained infertility, which is the diagnosis my life-partner and I received 18 months after we'd been trying to conceive without success.
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"Victoria hopes to raise awareness about infertility"I have been diagnosed with 'Unexplained Infertility"'because every single one of my tests and lab results all come back 'perfect,'" Victoria said.
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One 2015 study found that men diagnosed with infertility have a higher risk of developing health issues like heart disease, diabetes and alcohol abuse, while another connected infertility to cancer.
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When the researchers looked at the effects of diet on infertility, they found that in women with the lowest intake of fruit, the risk of infertility increased from 8% to 12%, and in those who ate fast food four or more times a week, the risk of infertility increased from 8% to 16%.
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More from Tonic: But the factor that infuriates me the most is the stigma attached to male infertility: The anxiety men feel around semen analysis, the ways in which male infertility is often conflated with impotence, the sense men get that a diagnosis of male infertility is somehow a reflection on their masculinity.
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"Infertility" is a term that many women who have experienced it will tell you is not discussed enough, and secondary infertility may be talked about even less — but what exactly is it?
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Dr. Marni Rosner, a New York City-based psychotherapist specializing in infertility and grief, told Refinery29 that infertility is often an "off-the-radar" topic in the world of TV and film.
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Becoming is not only a necessary and long-overdue corrective to the mainstream focus on infertility as an issue of white, middle-class women (in fact, black women have higher rates of infertility than white women) but a wonderful example of how every woman's infertility struggle is best understood within the context of her life overall.
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Infertility in developing nations is also almost always blamed on women, (in reality, causes of infertility are evenly split between men and women), adding further pressure on women who are unable to conceive.
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Some insurance policies cover insemination for couples who may be suffering from male or female infertility, but for those who suffer from "social infertility," like lesbians and single women, they have to pay.
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Even with insurance, many women may lack benefits for infertility care or face other obstacles to treatment, said Dr. Emily Jungheim, chief of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Washington University in St. Louis.
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My mom began explaining through sniffles their struggles with infertility.
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Tina's husband Benjamin has cystic fibrosis, which can cause infertility.
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"Oxidation is a known factor in male infertility," Reitano says.
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If left untreated, syphilis can cause blindness, infertility, and strokes.
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I struggled with infertility for 4 years, then a miscarriage.
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Other countries have used it as a response to infertility.
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Plagued by widespread infertility, women have been stripped of autonomy.
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Infertility is not the only struggle the couple has faced.
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We went through infertility, and it was a long process.
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Many couples suffer in silence: infertility still carries a stigma.
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They plan to do something similar with infertility and cardiology.
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Comiphene is a medication used to treat infertility in women.
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In 2017, the American Medical Association declared infertility a disease.
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Men face the hardships of infertility, just as women do.
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It took us five years to navigate the infertility maze.
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Infertility — caused by sperm defects — was often conflated with impotence.
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Is financial help available for the cost of infertility treatment?
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But on social media, pineapples are inextricably tied to infertility.
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She's writing about the intersection of infertility and mental health.
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We went through infertility, and it was a long process.
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Many men lack basic knowledge about risk factors for infertility.
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So did many members of my online infertility support groups.
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Pollution has also caused widespread infertility and a shrinking population.
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She also wants to dispel misinformation about infertility and miscarriage.
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The causes of infertility issues are manifold, but one of the major sources of infertility in men is due to something called low sperm motility, meaning the sperm struggles to swim toward the egg.
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According to the National Infertility Association, one in eight couples have trouble becoming pregnant or sustaining a pregnancy, and an estimated 7.4 million women have received some form of infertility services in their lifetime.
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"It is as if the entire medical realm is shaped to cater to women's infertility and women's bodies," says Liberty Barnes, a sociologist and the author of Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity.
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The women who "rarely or never" ate fast food had an 8% risk of infertility, while women who ate McMeals four or more times a week were twice as likely to experience periods of infertility.
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"I think of reproduction as a basic human right," said Dr. Kara N. Goldman, assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at New York University who has advocated for comprehensive infertility coverage in New York.
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And infertility is a health problem, it's not a moral failing.
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If it weren't for infertility, we wouldn't have found our boys.
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Read These Stories Next:How Likely Is Handmaid's Tale-Style Mass Infertility?
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"Infertility is not something you just openly talk about," Chris said.
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In some cases, the tumors could cause infertility or pregnancy loss.
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IVF is directly related to endometriosis because it can cause infertility.
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Read These Stories Next:What Caused Infertility In The Handmaid's Tale, Anyway?
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And infertility is not the only struggle the couple has faced.
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But diagnosing male infertility can be a complex and expensive process.
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The next potential risk listed is future infertility, then breast cancer.
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Infertility affects one out of every six couples, like the McKissacks.
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Men face the same infertility risk when they need cancer treatment.
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And there's no evidence linking infertility to uncomplicated abortions, she says.
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In many other countries, meanwhile, infertility can be grounds for ostracism.
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She suspects this trauma is the cause of her infertility now.
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Many people struggle with infertility and pregnancy is not a joke.
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Today, in honor of National Infertility Awareness Week, I'm sharing mine.
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Even scarier than going through the potential land mines of infertility?
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FGS can also cause other complications including infertility and ectopic pregnancies.
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Infertility results when something goes amiss during any of these steps.
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An estimated 30% to 50% of women with endometriosis experience infertility.
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Pineapples have become a powerful symbol for women struggling with infertility.
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Tragically, endometriosis is also one of the leading causes of infertility.
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In the U.S., infertility is a common struggle for many Americans.
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Instead, she underwent chemo-radiotherapy treatment that led to complete infertility.
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Instead, she underwent chemo-radiotherapy treatment that led to complete infertility.
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I suppose that's how they quietly managed infertility in the 1950s.
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Boys born small may be at risk for infertility in adulthood.
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In women, there was no link between birth weight and infertility.
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For women, it can result in pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility.
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Interviews show that women who reported infertility believe that their infertility may be the result of military service and related to exposure to toxins on the job, during deployments, and on military installations where they live.
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Pelvic infectionCancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation Additional factors that can cause infertility in menResearchers estimate that about 40% to 953% of the time, the root factor is a cause of infertility in the male, alone.
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Fifteen states, which together account about 50 percent of the U.S. population, require health plans to cover some form of infertility treatment for their enrollees if the patients fail after 12 months and receive an infertility diagnosis.
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Other variants might have been responsible for people's heart failure or infertility.
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Immediately he was called out for seemingly making light of infertility struggles.
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"In a way, we have a great appreciation for infertility," says Whitney.
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Before doing any infertility treatments, my life-partner and I explored adoption.
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Gabrielle Union is continuing to open up about her struggles with infertility.
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Untreated, they can lead to serious health problems, including blindness and infertility.
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We also know that both men and women are affected by infertility.
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Nearly 24,000 cis women develop infertility because of untreated STIs every year.
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Most American states still do not require insurers to cover infertility treatment.
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Her book, The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue, is out now.
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Men can and do have medical conditions that cause infertility as well.
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According to the CDC, 7.3 million American women have used infertility services.
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For its size, the study also included very few women with infertility.
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But despite their seemingly perfect exterior, the Wilkersons were struggling with infertility.
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Untreated gonorrhea can increase a woman's risk of HIV infection or infertility.
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And we know that ovulatory issues account for most cases of infertility.
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This knowledge could ultimately be used to provide better treatments for infertility.
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A couple is diagnosed with infertility after one year of unprotected sex.
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What are some signs that infertility therapy could be helpful for you?
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"Infertility brings up a lot of shame for people," Dr. Rosner adds.
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Terrified by the prospect of infertility, Cherisse carried the pregnancy to term.
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No matter what form it takes, infertility is highly distressing to men.
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Aside from the horrible pain, endometriosis is linked to infertility later on.
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The first finding is the high rate of infertility among military women.
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We often think of infertility as a white, upper-middle-class problem.
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Twenty percent of couples who struggle with infertility never learn the cause.
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The bride's father is an infertility specialist in private practice in Houston.
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The luminous Billie Piper plays Her, a successful journalist unstrung by infertility.
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Infertility affects more than one in 10 women of reproductive age worldwide.
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A woman adopting a baby from China because of her own infertility?
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PFAS has been linked with cancer, hormone disruption, liver damage and infertility.
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Infertility is a condition that affects an estimated 15% of couples worldwide.
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The fears about male infertility go beyond the stuff of dry science.
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It reflected Richardson and his wife's struggles with infertility, he told ET.
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Fifteen other states have infertility insurance coverage laws, though the specifics vary.
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But as insurance, it's not a dependable measure against age-related infertility.
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Over the study period, there were about 2,500 reported cases of infertility.
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She suffered from infertility and went through several treatments that didn't work.
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"Infertility is stressful in many ways that I never anticipated," Jensen says.
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Studies have suggested that the emotional stress that comes with infertility can be comparable to the levels of stress that cancer patients experience, and that rates of anxiety and depression can be high amongst those who experience infertility.
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As someone who specializes in counseling women and couples going through infertility, she knows just how rough the experience can be: "Women that are diagnosed with infertility often experience it as a real assault to their identity," she says.
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While 56% of adults with a postgraduate degree say that they have either undergone infertility treatment or know someone who has, only 20% of those with a high school degree or less report experience or knowledge of infertility treatment.
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According to the description of Phil and Alex's YouTube channel, they have undergone various infertility surgeries and treatments and multiple rounds of IVF over their seven-year marriage, as well as severe male factor infertility and stage 4 endometriosis.
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In May, the Kentucky couple welcomed quintuplets after facing infertility struggles for years.
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Infertility is a disease, according to the World Health Organization and the CDC.
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Last May, Briana and Jordan Driskell welcomed quintuplets after years of infertility struggles.
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The way we talk about infertility — the dreaded "barren womb" — is all wrong.
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Ms Iizuka never married, fearing that her infertility would put off any suitors.
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The Historical Notes also posits that a virus was to blame for infertility.
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Food Network star Katie Lee is speaking out about her struggle with infertility.
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All now live with infertility; chronic, debilitating pain; and sky-high medical bills.
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Infertility is painful and maddening for the couples forced to grapple with it.
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Obama revealed she had a miscarriage and talked about her struggles with infertility.
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That means an increased chance of infertility and more need for medical intervention.
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Tens of millions of people in China have infertility problems, one study estimated.
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I was in tears this morning as I too suffered from secondary infertility.
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Infertility struggles are all too real and they can be all too heartbreaking.
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If left untreated, PCOS can lead to infertility, high blood pressure, or diabetes.
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But severe cramps are a symptom of endometriosis, which can lead to infertility.
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A similar technique could be used one day to treat infertility in humans.
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This amount has not been consistently associated with male infertility, according to Brady.
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And this is one-stop shopping, from travel to nursery design to infertility.
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Until then, it could be used to treat infertility and other reproductive issues.
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But on Monday, she decided to open up about her struggle with infertility.
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Some men produce sperm that are poor swimmers, a major cause of infertility.
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"Infertility is not a women's issue when looking at the data," he said.
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Dreyer, 37, has been open about her struggles with infertility in the past.
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But as Obama hinted, some people still don't feel comfortable discussing their infertility.
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"Infertility used to be such a consuming part of my life," she wrote.
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With her announcement, Hathaway also shared her support for women struggling with infertility.
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Only 25% of women 228 to 22019 years old sought treatment for infertility.
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The illness can be painful, causing excessive bleeding, fatigue, bloating and possible infertility.
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For some women, it can lead to difficulty in getting pregnant and infertility.
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Following an initial round of infertility treatments, Patterson says she got good news.
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After years of struggles with infertility, they decided to look into another option.
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To be able to build that life, women need the facts about infertility.
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Infertility is defined as not being able to get pregnant after one year.
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Artificial intelligence and embryonic gene editing pose potential solutions to infertility and disease.
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Not everyone experiences chronic pain or infertility, though—from what I've read, anyway.
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It refers to contraception, pregnancy planning, infertility, and abortion, to name a few.
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The Middle East has been grappling with serious male infertility problems for decades.
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Scientific advances had made clear that infertility was not just a female burden.
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For couples struggling with infertility, the IVF process is already an emotional journey.
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You'd think this is standard, but few states recognize infertility as an illness.
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Celiac diseaseThyroid diseaseThere are more factors that can contribute to infertility in women.
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For me, and for thousands of other people, infertility is that raging fire.
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That was the routine of the roller coaster infertility had been for us.
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FGM can cause a host of serious health problems including infections and infertility.
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Startling new evidence suggests male infertility may be much worse than it appears.
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The dreaded diagnosis of "infertility" requires 12 months of longing, tracking, and trying.
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Obesity-related infertility or mobility issues were no longer a problem for them.
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The researchers only included women who did not have a history of infertility.
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"Misinformation includes that emergency contraception causes infertility, cancer and an abortion," she said.
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WILLIAMS The more pieces I could fit in, the more layered and nuanced we could be — there are pieces that are just about the trans pregnancy experience, there are pieces just about male infertility, there are pieces just about female infertility.
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Last month, in honor of National Infertility Awareness Week, Spencer and Whitney Blake posted a series of photos "announcing" their infertility — and now the pictures, which parody the pregnancy announcements that abound on social media these days, are going viral.
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They focused on what's known as primary infertility, when women try to conceive for at least a year without success, as well as secondary infertility, which refers to couples who struggle with conception after having at least one prior pregnancy.
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It's the first lifestyle site dedicated to helping people navigate infertility and fertility treatments.
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My biggest goal is to help others feel less isolated as they navigate infertility.
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Today, after struggling for four years with infertility, Sargent herself is now a mother.
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Lindemann concluded, "There is no magic food combination to cure infertility to my knowledge."
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So, inadequate fat consumption can lead to infertility and a low sex drive. 210.
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Dealing with infertility while being in the public eye hasn't been easy for Union.
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Reproductive medicine and technology has given couples dealing with infertility more options than ever.
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My family represents the 12.5% of the population that struggles with infertility and pregnancy.
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Greeks commonly believe that the pill and other hormonal contraceptives cause infertility and cancer.
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Infertility is a lonely thing to go through — few people talk about it openly.
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Planned Parenthood, a national network of healthcare providers, offers infertility services, contraception and abortions.
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For those under age 45, the potential side effects include increased risk of infertility.
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The women had no infertility indications and were not participating in any hormonal treatment.
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Forty-four percent of large employers don't offer any infertility services, the survey found.
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Buckley also wants other hopeful parents to keep trying if they're struggling with infertility.
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Prospective parents struggling with infertility can turn to IVF, or sperm and egg donation.
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Infertility, malformations, and premature death all likely plagued these ancient peoples because of it.
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That final qualifier is especially important since the world is plagued by rampant infertility.
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We're bringing it to your attention again in honor of National Infertility Awareness Week.
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After two years of struggling with infertility, one Texas couple is finally expecting twins.
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These robosperm solve a very important, and common, infertility issue: sperm with poor mobility.
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So if you could block that receptor [in humans], pharmacologically, you could induce infertility.
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Kakapo 125's goal is to identify the genetic bases for infertility and disease.
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The concept of using handmaids to battle infertility is inspired by a biblical story.
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"I'm standing for the women suffering with infertility, depression and suicidal tendencies," she said.
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"We're seeing more infertility with first-child and second-child pregnancies," Dr. Feinberg said.
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It increases the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women.
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The joke is inconsiderate towards the many people struggling with infertility and pregnancy losses.
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For many non-famous women, hearing stories of infertility and difficult conception is important.
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Though rarely fatal, untreated infections are linked to devastating consequences like miscarriages and infertility.
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If left untreated, gonorrhea can cause infertility, miscarriages, chronic pain and blindness in newborns.
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For women suffering infertility or repeated miscarriages, POAS can be a seriously anxious experience.
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It's 2027, and society has been plagued with infertility, removing humans' ability to reproduce.
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Our guide delves into the causes, risk factors, and treatment options for male infertility.
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Danielle Moylan wrote a beautiful, wrenching essay on struggling with infertility in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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It can cause chronic pain, menstrual problems, recurrent urinary tract infections, cysts and infertility.
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We ob-gyns see infertility from chlamydia that lurked silently in the fallopian tubes.
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"It's the virility and fertility dilemma," says Sharon Covington, an infertility therapist in Maryland.
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Poor sperm levels and infertility are a clear sign that men's health is failing.
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Only 16 states require insurance companies to cover or offer coverage for infertility treatment.
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The movement claimed that people of better genetic endowment were subject to greater infertility.
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His recommendation was to see a reproductive endocrinologist—a doctor who specializes in infertility.
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This is great news for transplant science and women who are struggling with infertility.
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So, after a huge hiccup in our plans, we decided to go explore infertility treatments.
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I joke that I've been around the world and back through this experience of infertility.
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It's an important proof-of-concept that could eventually yield new infertility treatments for women.
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For National Infertility Awareness Week, we've found some of the best fertility podcasts out there.
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How do you explain to a 7 year old the emotions and challenges of infertility.
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In The Handmaid's Tale, infertility is linked to another one of Gilead's prominent problems: pollution.
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Harris told BuzzFeed News she had trouble with infertility after that, and lost two pregnancies.
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That is how erased, stigmatized, and misrepresented black women's infertility is in the mainstream narrative.
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For example, the platform already works with providers who specialize in postpartum depression and infertility.
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After 24 pregnancies and babies with my late husband I suffered secondary infertility when remarried.
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While they were ultimately offered coverage for specific procedures, they were denied complete infertility treatment.
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Previous research has linked what's known as apnea, or disrupted breathing during sleep, with infertility.
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Getting started with lifestyle changes: Tackling obesity Obese men are more likely to experience infertility.
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Infertility treatment in general was not associated with children failing in any of these areas.
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This birthing story started after 28-year-old Kelley McKissack faced years of infertility issues.
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In this case, the Crispr-snipped gene was not for infertility but for coat color.
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Whether it's infertility, miscarriages, still births - so many awful situations and you're joking about it!
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Today, those dealing with infertility have a comparatively wide range of options available to them.
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BuzzFeed reports that the article focused on Falzone's endometriosis, which later led to her infertility.
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Some states, for instance, require coverage for infertility treatment and others have chosen not to.
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But in order to succeed, they must undo decades of misunderstanding and mischaracterization of infertility.
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Infertility can lead to serious depression and anxiety, and the fallout can last a lifetime.
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One factor doctors do know contributes to infertility is age, for both men and women.
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As part of National Infertility Awareness Week, some groups have been tweeting out some statistics.
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Other experimental drugs that LUCA is developing would target preterm birth, bacterial vaginosis, and infertility.
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Many insurance carriers define infertility very narrowly, excluding same-sex couples and unmarried heterosexual couples.
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Victoria told Insider she hopes to raise awareness both about infertility and the IVF process.
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Early headlines have highlighted both the anti-Trump comments and the Obamas' challenges with infertility.
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But FertilityIQ's "assessments," as the site refers to them, are specific to the infertility challenge.
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I realize, objectively, that viewing my infertility as cosmic retribution or moral shortcoming sounds insane.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron found her grappling with her infertility as a result of sterilization.
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Among other things, we know that untreated STDs—like gonorrhea and chlamydia—can cause infertility.
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Back in the 1980s, as a doctoral student, I headed to Egypt to study infertility.
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To the Editor: Twenty-six ago, after years of infertility treatment, I was finally pregnant.
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They struggle with infidelity, infertility, miscarriages, anxiety and depression, and the trauma of childhood abuse.
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PCOS accounts for an estimated 80% of infertility cases associated with a lack of ovulation.
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The fruit has been widely adopted as a symbol for women dealing with infertility. Why?
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"We're trying to break the silence of infertility and normalize it," Ms. Marshall-Page said.
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"Psychologists must understand that infertility is a trauma, and often a complex trauma," Bradow writes.
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" She recalled her years-long "infertility nightmare," which she chronicled in her memoir, "Instant Mom.
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"But we also showed that infertility couldn't explain most of the pattern," Dr. Reich said.
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Bertero notes that in many cases, mice are still the best model for studying infertility.
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She may be part of the one in eight statistic of people diagnosed with infertility.
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Implications for family planning Dr. Alan Copperman, director of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Mount Sinai Medical Center, said birthrates help us understand disease risk, predict infertility and see where there have been changes in teen pregnancy or across other age groups.
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Because it can be hard to fully grasp what infertility involves unless you've dealt with it personally, many people believe that it's all about the end game, a baby — that if you could just get to that prize, the pain of infertility would fade away.
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Thinking of the future and potential infertility, Matrooshi's family had her right ovary removed and frozen.
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When scientists discover a new way to prevent disease or overcome infertility, they usually get applauded.
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"If someone opens up to you about their infertility issues, be there for them!" says Spencer.
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With unexplained infertility, we had no clear path forward because all the tests came back normal.
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Emily and Aaron Blocker, of Jackson, Mississippi, are expecting their first child after experiencing infertility struggles.
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After struggling with infertility, she became pregnant with both Luna and Miles via in vitro fertilization.
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Teigen has been very open about her struggle with infertility and postpartum depression in the past.
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In fact, the majority of patients that have infertility struggles eventually will become pregnant, she adds.
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If such infertility is rampant among the Commanders, then their handmaids are almost for set decoration.
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Over the past 10 years, the couple faced incredible challenges, including infertility and four heartbreaking miscarriages.
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Ms French was motivated by her own experience of infertility between her first and second children.
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But in China, infertility treatment is hard to come by for parents in such a situation.
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"Secondary infertility is so common, but people don't realize it," one user responded to Dreyer's tweet.
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But it's important to remember that infertility isn't the fault of the woman or her body.
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Chlamydia, an extremely common STD which can result in female infertility, has nearly doubled since 2000.
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But listening to the misconceptions of people who have never been through infertility has changed me.
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After struggling with infertility, she became pregnant with both Luna and Miles through in vitro fertilization.
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Adebayo's investment in shedding light on infertility sprang from her confrontations with a similarly invisible disorder.
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Infertility is defined clinically as a couple being unable to conceive after 12 months of trying.
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It may also have an unintended consequence: the restriction of infertility treatments, especially in vitro fertilization.
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After Elwell-Landry experienced struggles with infertility, she and her husband Jeff turned to embryo adoption.
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Left untreated, chlamydia infections can lead to blindness, severe bladder inflammation, infertility and death in koalas.
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He invited hundreds of women to State House where he administered another herbal remedy for infertility.
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According to the team, this infertility treatment has several advantages not found in currently existing alternatives.
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As the CDC explains, that condition can cause damage to your reproductive organs and, therefore, infertility.
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In the past, they faced infertility and a miscarriage, and the show continued without a hitch.
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While this approach has produced results - and babies - it has also left male infertility scientifically sidelined.
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What we know about infertility is surprisingly abysmal, especially for women in their 30s and 40s.
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Just 15 states require insurance companies cover infertility treatments, and exactly what they cover may vary.
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It's an irreversible condition, called uterine factor infertility, affecting as many as 5% of women worldwide.
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"Infertility is a disease and should be covered by insurance just like other diseases," she adds.
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This includes coverage for infertility treatments, including IVF, as well as fertility preservation for cancer patients.
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However, even if all 50 states passed similar laws, not everyone would be guaranteed infertility coverage.
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The other procedures targeted infertility, despite the lack of compelling evidence connecting it to mitochondrial dysfunction.
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For all its innovative science, Celmatix isn't offering a cure, much less a treatment, for infertility.
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Jennifer said she has severe polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can increase risks of infertility for women.
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Experts estimate that infertility affects around 10 to 15 percent of couples of reproductive age worldwide.
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I am a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist and went through multiple rounds of fertility treatments.
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Qualifying factors included being between the ages of 21 and 29 and having uterine-factor infertility.
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That's why Amy and I sat down this week to discuss our own experiences with infertility.
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At the end of last year he questioned whether skinny jeans and underwear were causing infertility.
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Untreated STDs can lead to serious health problems, such as chronic pain, infertility, or even death.
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One problem with the discourse of infertility is that it has at its core a nonevent.
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Over the past 30 years, my research has focused on male infertility in the Middle East.
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While Katkin is dealing with infertility, she's navigating becoming a partner in an international law firm.
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Some question its contents and believe conspiracy theories that Westerners have manipulated it to cause infertility.
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"Medical records show he was dealing with infertility issues as far back as 2001," she said.
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PCOS is also associated with infertility, and it increases the risk of some complications during pregnancy.
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Some had become pregnant through infertility treatment, some adopted children and some chose to remain childless.
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Low-birth-weight boys, but not girls, may be at increased risk for infertility as adults.
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With CRISPR we stand to learn a lot about infertility through both human embryos and mice.
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So in an effort to provide a more effective solution to infertility, particularly infertility resulting from low sperm motility, a team of researchers at German Institute for Integrative Nanosciences has harnessed the awesome power of magnetic fields to create a tiny robotic tail for struggling sperm.
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"These procedures, as elective as they may be, they are very much time-sensitive to our patients, there is no question," said Dr. Antonio R. Gargiulo, M.D., a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist at the Center for Infertility and Reproductive Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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According to Allyson Bradow, a psychologist who wrote a paper on infertility, people affected by infertility must adjust to a major shift in life expectations while being exposed to constant reminders of their condition, through questions from family members, medical treatments or interactions with pregnant women.
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The experience of infertility is a taboo topic, and the grief of pregnancy loss can be isolating.
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This many-years chapter of infertility and loss was probably the hardest thing I've ever gone through.
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There, the dictator tried to prove to the world he could cure HIV, asthma, infertility, and hypertension.
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And just a slightly lower number — 11.9% — have received some kind of infertility service in their lifetime.
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It's a medical first for the United States, and an important milestone in the battle against infertility.
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Long-term complications can include infertility, pelvic cysts, "chocolate" cysts on the ovaries, and even bowel obstructions.
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It can cause problems such as infertility, excruciatingly painful cramps, painful sex, nausea, vomiting, and other symptoms.
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" Another wrote simply, "It helps to hear I am not alone in this struggle with secondary infertility.
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Small numbers of men on finasteride experience erectile dysfunction, decreased libido, ejaculation problems, infertility, and orgasm disorders.
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And experiencing infertility has been linked to greater emotional stress and increased rates of anxiety and depression.
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"Infertility patients are very vulnerable," he added, referring to the emotional toll that fertility treatments can take.
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We had trouble with infertility, and then we looked into foster care, and we haven&apost stopped.
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It wasn't even the worst story I'd heard, in my two years at an infertility support group.
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"A lot of people underestimate the impact that infertility can have on a person's wellbeing," says Johannesson.
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For more on Gabrielle Union's infertility struggles, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now.
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They have a condition where their uterus is either nonfunctioning or nonexistent called absolute uterine factor infertility.
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If you've struggled with infertility, you likely know that nothing — not even IVF — is a pregnancy guarantee.
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The experience gave her the idea to cofound Carrot with infertility doctor Asima Ahmad in early 2016.
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"A lot of the taboo around infertility is beginning to change in a positive way," she said.
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If these are left untreated, they can even evolve into pelvic inflammatory disease and result in infertility.
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"I suffered infertility for a long time and we adopted my oldest 6 years ago," she says.
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It can cause anemia, diarrhea, bladder cancer, slow cognitive development, as well as infertility problems in females.
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Traditionally, companies that cover infertility give employees a cap on how much they can spend on treatments.
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The state's current law requires insurance companies cover expenses considered medically necessary as part of infertility treatment.
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In other words, a few months of moderate exercise actually demonstrated the ability to reverse male infertility.
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Untreated gonorrhea can result in serious long-term health problems such as pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility.
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If untreated, gonorrhea can cause permanent health problems, like infertility and long-term abdominal pain in women.
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If not treated, gonorrhea can cause severe and permanent health problems, including long-term pain and infertility.
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Only six military hospitals offer the full range of infertility treatments, but they have long waits lists.
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He is a nationally-recognized clinician and researcher in the area of recurrent pregnancy loss and infertility.
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"After seven years of infertility, we never imagined we'd get to experience this!" the couple tell PEOPLE.
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Infertility includes those who aren't able to get pregnant after at least one year of unprotected sex.
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Experts also worried that infertility itself, not only its treatment, might somehow be linked to breast cancer.
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Lots of people remember the Dalkon Shield of the 1970s and the injury and infertility it caused.
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Their friendship saw them through break-ups, career ups and downs, cancer, wild disagreements, infertility, and beyond.
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Teigen discussed her past struggle with infertility in 2015 on her now canceled daytime talk show, FABLife.
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Whether your infertility is temporary or permanent depends partly on the drugs and doses that you have.
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It often—though not necessarily—occurs in the context of loss, such as continued infertility or miscarriage.
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In women, gonorrhea leads to pelvic inflammatory disease, which increases the risks of ectopic pregnancy and infertility.
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Medical progress, religious permissions and government efforts have combined to make male infertility treatment much more accessible.
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Many of the church's doctrines affect women disproportionately, from those governing abortion to infertility treatment to divorce.
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"I don't think you can ever overuse the word grateful," says Hall, who previously struggled with infertility.
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I have endometriosis, a chronic reproductive health condition that can cause pain, fatigue, organ damage, and infertility.
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Medical professionals should not wait until there is a history of infertility to diagnose and treat PCOS.
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Here's a link to our infertility section for more on I.V.F., I.U.I. and other treatments and issues.
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Yet it took me a long time to acknowledge that infertility can be a form of trauma.
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Aside from a few online forums, there are no real support systems for men with infertility issues.
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Real, substantive change is needed from the medical and funding communities to address the male infertility crisis.
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Infertility caused by abnormalities of the uterus, or womb, affects 1 in 500 reproductive-age women globally.
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Increasingly in the U.S. and other Western countries, rates of male and female infertility are indeed rising.
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Many women facing infertility couldn&apost help but wonder if she used a surrogate or donor eggs.
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This makes it possible that the most severe cases of infertility were not part of the study.
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"I sometimes wish there was a video camera to show the nightmare that is infertility," she wrote.
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It's complicated, Dr. Nicole Noyes, system chief for reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwell Health, tells Refinery29.
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Research shows an association between this dietary pattern and a reduced risk of infertility in some women.
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According to Fertility IQ, a private organization founded by former infertility patients which collates information on US patients' experience of infertility treatment, the technology, consulting and accounting, and banking and finance sectors rank highest in terms of fertility benefits offered, while the industrial and retail sectors rank lowest.
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Experts say puberty blockers can decrease bone density, and hormone therapy can lead to infertility in some cases.
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But most people won't realize that they have blocked fallopian tubes until they see a doctor for infertility.
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But while this approach would allow for reversible infertility, trying to deliver testosterone orally can be a hassle.
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Rare, undetected gene mutations may help explain some people's common conditions like kidney damage, heart failure, and infertility.
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This is significant because in the Orthodox (or very religious) world, infertility isn't always talked about or understood.
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They can also expose animals to a wide assortment of chemicals that cause infertility and other hormonal issues.
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Although fertility is often branded a "woman's issue," male infertility accounts for one-third of all fertility issues.
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Phosphorus tackles a different thread in the tapestry of reproduction, testing couples for any possible signs of infertility.
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It was my life's greatest blessing, and a one that many with endometriosis and infertility might never know.
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They didn't have a history of infertility, and had been trying to conceive for three months or less.
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Eric Widra, Shady Grove's medical director, noted that the JAMA paper studied women without a history of infertility.
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Most women with gonorrhoea will show no signs of the disease, which can cause infertility if left untreated.
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Like many couples who've struggled to overcome infertility issues, Ponto said it affected her relationship with her husband.
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Teas for kidney problems, creams for aches, pills for infertility and four claiming to help men with impotence.
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Current testing for diagnosing male infertility, however, is labor intensive and can cost up to $300 per test.
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Left untreated, the condition can lead to complications such as malnutrition, low bone density, lactose intolerance and infertility.
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The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how sleep disorders might directly cause infertility.
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In koalas, the effects of chlamydia are devastating, including blindness, infertility and an infection known as 'dirty tail'.
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"Intrauterine insemination (IUI) — a type of artificial insemination — is a procedure for treating infertility," according to Mayo Clinic.
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To incur the wrath of a hijra means to invoke a curse upon oneself of impotence and infertility.
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Between 25 and 40, I got married, I got divorced, I had infertility struggles, I had a career.
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The mother had absolute uterine factor infertility, in which the uterus does not exist or does not function.
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And while some research shows an association between MG infections and infertility, that link is far from settled.
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But it took on a whole new meaning when she had her baby son after years of infertility.
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" She added: "I want to give people the strength to go on — even when it comes to infertility.
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Politicians speak with reverence of motherhood (not to mention apple pie), yet infertility research struggles to attract funds.
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This can lead to severe hyperglycaemia which is extremely dangerous, and can cause blindness, infertility, coma, and death.
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This data calls for more research to pinpoint the reasons for high levels of infertility among military women.
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FGM can cause severe bleeding and health issues including infections and infertility, as well as complications in childbirth.
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Fourteen of those states require insurance companies to actually cover infertility treatment, but California and Texas have limitations.
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In about a third of couples with infertility, there is a male factor along with a female factor.
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The focus of the study is help with screenings and assessments for conditions like infertility, osteoperosis and pregnancy.
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Also, more research is needed to connect specific pesticides with the infertility treatment outcomes seen in the study.
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Some social media users say that drinking celery juice has cured them of mental health problems and infertility.
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Carson Daly criticized as being insensitive to infertility problems But Lee ended her post on a hopeful note.
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This can be incredibly painful and often leads to digestive issues, fatigue, and infertility — but it's not deadly.
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My infertility, as it turned out, was no more a moral failing than my asthma or high arches.
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Indeed, among women below the age of 35, an endometriosis diagnosis more than doubled participants' risk for infertility.
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Women have suffered infertility in silence for centuries, steeped in shame over something that simply isn't their fault.
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Cox is one of many women who have begun using TikTok to talk about infertility and reproductive health.
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There, genetic sperm defects — the main cause of male infertility — are particularly common and often run in families.
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Medical conditions such as PCOS, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, or autoimmune disorders are all associated with infertility in women.
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Research indicates that a diet high in saturated fats and sugar is linked to infertility issues in women.
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I'd gotten through infertility, gotten past a failed adoption, braced my way through I.V.F. and a C-section.
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Track menstrual cycles and how they relate to women's health conditions such as infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome.
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The six-month trial surveyed 2,380 men who sought infertility treatments after their partners had trouble getting pregnant.
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Past infections, medical conditions, hormonal imbalances and more can all cause what is known as male factor infertility.
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Primarily used in cases of male infertility, ICSI involves injecting a single sperm directly into a mother's egg.
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The scientists in the Evatar research hope it will help improve understanding into endometriosis, fibroids, cancer and infertility.
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At the time, Dr. Reich's group attributed some of the finding to possible infertility in Neanderthal-human hybrids.
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Most will succeed, but many collide with the brutality of biology: Infertility now affects one in seven couples.
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But for most of last year, we were struggling with infertility and wondered how we would become parents ourselves.
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The number of years couples experienced infertility before trying IVF also factored into their odds of success before treatment.
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Couples were 9 percent more likely to have a baby after three years of infertility than after six years.
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Because male infertility issues can be inherited by male offspring, the study results aren't entirely surprising, the authors note.
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Honestly, not a funny joke when millions of women are struggling with infertility and other issues of the sort.
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About one in 10 women of reproductive age have PCOS, which can cause irregular periods, infertility, and other issues.
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"I don't know if we will have a success story for the end of our infertility journey," Caitlin said.
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Until you start talking about it, you don't realize how many people are going through some form of infertility.
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Aside from broadly hating women, the Sons of Jacob's impetus for creating Gilead stems from a vast infertility issue.
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Many cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea go undiagnosed and can result in long-term consequences, including infertility for women.
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Symptoms include debilitating pain, infertility, changes in mood, painful sex and other issues that may interfere with daily life.
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In a strongly worded letter of opposition, the National Infertility Association argued that embryos should not be granted personhood.
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Kameko: He still Ubers and I still sell stuff occasionally, but we haven't really done infertility treatments in awhile.
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Left untreated, these diseases can have severe long-term consequences, including pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, stillbirths, and organ damage.
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Another limitation is that researchers lacked data on two major risk factors for infertility pregnancy complications: smoking and obesity.
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There is also a program to use CRISPR gene editing to introduce genes for infertility into the mosquito population.
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They serve a dual purpose, as they could also be used to select the healthiest sperm for infertility treatments.
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It will underpin the design of new drugs to treat infertility, and help researchers understand more about developmental disabilities.
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Untreated STDs can lead to infertility, ectopic pregnancies, stillbirths, and a heightened risk of HIV, according to the CDC.
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Birth rates around the world are plummeting and men are responsible for infertility in 30-50 percent of couples.
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The study doesn't prove whether or how specific patient characteristics influence a woman's choice to seek help for infertility.
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After seven years of infertility issues and a miscarriage, Kristen and her husband Seth did not feel overly optimistic.
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Lindsey has uterine factor infertility; she was born without a uterus but has normal ovaries that produce healthy eggs.
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Maybe she's wary of the various health problems laptops have been linked to—like male infertility or neck pain.
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But it also gives us insight into how dire the infertility crisis was before society went completely topsy turvy.
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In other words, though the birth rate may be down, that doesn't necessarily mean the infertility rate is up.
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The study, led from Nanjing Medical University, may be a milestone in the path to developing treatments for infertility.
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The nine-week pregnancy was the result of an in-vitro fertilization, one in several rounds of infertility treatments.
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To explore these scenarios further, we spoke to Dr. Marni Rosner, a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and infertility.
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It's a huge industry, but very few things are offered to patients that address the emotional aspects of infertility.
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Untreated gonorrhea can lead to scarring of the urethra in men and pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility in women.
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And women who've struggled with infertility have cited her as an inspiration for being so honest about the treatments.
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The three categories of reproductive care studied were access to birth control, to infertility services, and to abortion care.
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Only a federal mandate can require that everyone, no matter what type of insurance they have, receives infertility coverage.
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Still, early research has shown that in large doses, they can suppress natural production of testosterone and induce infertility.
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Rachel goes through a crucible of agony, braving abuse, infertility, betrayal and ravages of the body and the mind.
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With endo, the longer it's left undiagnosed, the higher the risk of infertility and the worse the pain is.
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Leaving gonorrhea untreated can result in pelvic inflammatory disease, pregnancy complications, infertility, and an increased risk for HIV infection.
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Infertility and fostering Seven years ago, the Gibsons married, refusing to allow a dark cloud to shadow their love.
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"My husband has cystic fibrosis, so infertility is common," Tina said, adding that they had found peace with it.
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The company eventually agreed to pay for infertility treatment for Krupa, the complaint said, but it was not successful.
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If they succeed — likely not for decades — they could cure most infertility and stop women's biological clocks from ticking.
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Next, the Apple Women's Health Study will assess how menstrual-cycle monitoring can interact with infertility and osteoporosis diagnostics.
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Most women experience a period of infertility while they're breastfeeding, so longer breastfeeding times mean longer gaps between births.
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Along with trenchant observations of privilege and power, Sekaran delves fearlessly into rape, infertility, adoption, identity politics and more.
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Little does Hairy know that Sharon has faked her infertility and finds herself now pregnant with Hairy's biological child.
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No one was talking about infertility, and it was difficult for us to open up with others about it.
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The Bauers had been unable to conceive, but "doctors found no medical reasons for their infertility," the suit says.
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The procedure can cause severe bleeding and health issues including infections and infertility, as well as complications in childbirth.
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Women with PCOS often experience irregular menstrual cycles, weight gain, excess hair on the face and body and infertility.
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After almost 55,000 shares on Facebook, the photo has become a symbol of hope for others struggling with infertility.
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They knowingly and incorrectly claim abortion poses risks such as infertility, breast cancer, and birth defects in future pregnancies.
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In 2016, I was diagnosed with endometriosis, a chronic reproductive health condition which can cause severe pain and infertility.
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It was something she had read about online, where the topic is discussed in clicky articles like "I Took a Job at Starbucks to Get Infertility Benefits" and infertility forums like "Matt and Doree's Eggcellent Adventure," a Facebook group founded by Doree Shafrir, a podcaster and writer, and her partner, Matt Mira.
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While clapping back at body shamers during her pregnancy in 2016, Jameson confirmed her daughter was conceived following infertility struggles.
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Yet, if you believe the message boards, PCOS is often touted as a (if not the) leading cause of infertility.
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FertilityMap aims to develop predictive algorithms to inform infertility diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment and help more families achieve successful pregnancies.
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Side effects include infection, increased risk of infertility, prolonged labour or miscarriage, incontinence, vulva abscesses, and a high mortality rate.
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For a more definitive answer on the link between pollution and infertility, we should turn to Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel.
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So far California and Maryland are the only states to have updated their definitions of infertility to include gay couples.
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It engages with topics — such as infertility, online bullying, single parenting, and more — that the original sitcom wouldn't have touched.
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Infertility is "a one-sided thing", says Kemi Ailoje, who founded the Lifelink Fertility Clinic in Lagos two years ago.
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Less common causes of infertility in women can include blocked fallopian tubes, structural problems with the uterus or uterine fibroids.
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Excessive alcohol intake (more than two drinks per day) is associated with lower sperm quality and infertility, according to Brady.
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But in rural India, infertility carries an added stigma for women, who can be outcast from their families and society.
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While clapping back at body shamers during her pregnancy in 2016, Jameson confirmed her daughter was conceived following infertility struggles.
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In particular, prepubertal patients may suffer from permanent infertility because mature spermatozoa in semen cannot be cryopreserved prior to therapy.
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Yet while we tend to label infertility as exclusively impacting older couples, reproductive challenges touch aspiring parents of all ages.
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All too often, however, these tubes get infected by bacteria, which can lead to blockage and severe cases of infertility.
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"For the girl who is getting the infertility diagnosis now, it's not hopeless," uterine transplant nurse, Kristin Posey Wallis, shared.
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Even if her eggs hadn't been damaged by the chemotherapy, the transplant would likely cause permanent infertility, she was told.
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But, left untreated, it can result in pelvic inflammatory disease, causing damage to a woman's reproductive system and even infertility.
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It causes infertility, problems urinating, menstruating and giving birth, as well as a myriad of other medical and psychological issues.
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Prior to this pregnancy, the couple had struggled with infertility for 17 years, suffering through four miscarriages and one stillbirth.
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While 65% of women with insurance saw medical providers for infertility treatment, only 39.7% of women without health insurance did.
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Indeed, a 3D printed ovary implant could help childhood cancer survivors, who have an increased risk of infertility as adults.
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That reflects a general societal bias and misunderstanding about the reality that 50 percent of infertility issues originate with men.
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"The testicle is a boiler making sperm constantly," Paul Turek, a California-based researcher and urologist in men's infertility, explained.
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In men, a shorter AGD has been associated with poorer semen quality, less testosterone, and a higher risk of infertility.
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The girls she spoke with were shocked, in particular, to learn that untreated chlamydia could lead to infertility over time.
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"Male infertility is a dramatically under-appreciated condition affecting millions of couples every year," said Greg Sommer, CEO at Sandstone.
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As the pair both struggled with infertility, tragedy rocked the family when the twins' sister Jennifer Pippin died last year.
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For example, gradual desertification in Israel, Lebanon and Jordan caused by global warming is leading to land degradation and infertility.
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FGM can lead to severe bleeding, cysts, infections, infertility, and complications in childbirth, according to the United Nations Population Fund.
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In poorer countries infertility is more often caused by infections—some of them sexually transmitted, others picked up following childbirth.
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Dr. Zev Williams is the Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Columbia University's Irving Medical Center.
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They have been linked to cancer, hormone disruption, infertility, and neurological deficits in children, according to the commission's guidance document.
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YouTubers Phil and Alex Congelliere, who have documented their heartbreaking infertility journey on the streaming platform for years, are expecting!
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So-called DES daughters also carry an increased risk of pregnancy complications, infertility and structural abnormalities in the reproductive tract.
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It was developed in the early 1990s as a treatment for male infertility, though it is now used more generally.
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Palestinian women who became suicide bombers had been stigmatized in some way, like disfiguration, infertility, allegation of affair or divorce.
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Treatment with doxorubicin can cause infection, leukemia, heart failure, and organ failure, and will almost certainly, for me, cause infertility.
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Fitness influencer Anna Victoria has been documenting her IVF treatment on social media following a nearly two-year infertility journey.
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If you do, please tag me so I can read and send you some love ❤️ #fbggirls #fbgcommunity #infertility www.annavictoria.
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After battling infertility, she believed that nothing mattered other than the fact that she was going to be a mom.
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"In the competitive world of grant funding, there is a view that male infertility is a problem solved," Sharpe said.
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And then there are those who feel only shame — about their appearance, their infertility, or their perceived lack of femininity.
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In the long term, Kronberg said withholding insulin can also cause nerve damage, heart attacks, stroke, gum disease, and infertility.
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In this narrative, ambivalence about having children, infertility, unplanned pregnancies or the decision to terminate them are imperfections, flaws, failures.
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She intertwines her family's pioneer past and the parentage secrets it kept with an account of her struggles with infertility.
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He is also a former consultant obstetrician and gynecologist, and a infertility specialist, at Bourn Hall Clinic in Cambridge, England.
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Here are some questions and answers about infertility coverage: What should I do if my employer doesn't offer I.V.F. benefits?
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"If you've gone through infertility, you go through this stage where you just don't feel good enough," Ms. Major said.
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She is a first-year reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
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Not long ago, Dr. Zhang was contacted by a local television news channel to talk about National Infertility Awareness Week.
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Like many women who must leap into the hamster wheel of infertility, I've had almost every procedure, test and medication.
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They are instead the result of factors like natural family planning, hormonal contraceptives, sterilization, infertility and loss, and yes, abortion.
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A few months later, she started an infertility blog and began planning a book series to explain IVF to children.
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This could also mean not being allowed to create the multiple embryos needed to help the many couples facing infertility.
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" Smith believes therapy is "immensely helpful" for anyone "facing the many uneasy, hard, agonizing decisions that come with treating infertility.
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For the new study in JAMA researchers tracked 750 women aged 30 to 44 years with no history of infertility.
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"A history of infertility, whether in female or male, can in itself denote risk for the baby because what causes infertility can be associated with adverse genetic traits inherited by the next generation," said the co-author of an accompanying editorial, Dr. Norbert Gleicher of the Center for Human Reproduction in New York City.
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"People are afraid to talk about politics, mental health and infertility around the dinner table and that's wrong," she tells PEOPLE.
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We went through two years of IVF and back then, infertility treatments weren't covered by insurance so it was very expensive.
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In fact, blocked fallopian tubes are one of the most common causes of infertility, affecting up to 40% of all cases.
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Added to this, rumors that the vaccine could cause infertility made some parents reluctant to allow their daughters to be vaccinated.
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It was marketed as not only a fix for mitochondrial diseases but also as way to solve age-related infertility issues.
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I am grateful that I finally gave birth to my baby last year during Infertility Awareness Week, at 35 years old.
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The sisters talk about how their bond allowed them to make the Real Housewives star a mom after years of infertility.
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The Ultimate Guide To One Of The Most Common Causes Of Infertility What The Health Words On Food Packaging Actually Mean
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A Woman Is Thanking "An Army Of Infertility Warriors" For Helping Her Through IVF 6 Strange Reasons You're Not Getting Pregnant
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"These results are of concern and might explain in part why unexplained infertility is so prevalent," Skakkebaek said in a statement.
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Read These Stories Next:The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 Review: It Will Leave You BreathlessWhat Caused Infertility In The Handmaid's Tale, Anyway?
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Others called her post "selfish and self-centered" because she complained about pregnancy when so many other women struggle with infertility.
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Fitness influencer Anna Victoria is opening up about her infertility struggle with a very different kind of before and after photo.
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Cohen, who says he he sees patients who face infertility or other hormonal problems, worries about the safety of this method.
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Gonorrhea can lead to awful effects like burning urination, pelvic inflammation, infertility and chronic pain, and can spread through the body.
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The new mom previously opened up about her struggles with infertility in her 2017 memoir, We're Going to Need More Wine.
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Like other infertility treatments, it's very rare that an insurance company would cover the procedure, which is largely viewed as elective.
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Desperate, women were throwing themselves down staircases, ingesting pesticides, and thrusting sharp objects into their cervix, causing death, infertility, and illness.
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It was able to identify abnormal sperm samples, based on sperm concentration and motility, and determine infertility with roughly 98% accuracy.
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But he's also continued to advertise it as a way to not only prevent mitochondrial birth defects, but age-related infertility.
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"You continue to market MRT (mitochondrial replacement technology) to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease and to treat infertility," she wrote.
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Almost 13 percent of women and 10 percent of men said they had experienced a period of infertility at some point.
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Finally, after nearly four years of miscarriages and infertility, Ariana's doctor prescribed steroids, and she became pregnant with their daughter, Bailey.
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Swan says that men who struggle with infertility may be doing everything right in terms of their diet and other factors.
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While this is a pretty awesome solution to infertility, the idea for the spermbot has been around for a few years.
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The couple has stayed strong throughout Giuliana's cancer battle and infertility struggles while trying to conceive a second child via surrogate.
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"Infertility therapy" can include counseling about many different issues relating to fertility, including difficulty getting pregnant, miscarriages, and late-term losses.
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Patient changes that could be factors including increasing rates of obesity and diabetes, older maternal age, and use of infertility treatments.
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Her successful birth marked a new era in reproductive technology — and for many struggling with infertility, a new era of hope.
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Although roughly 1 in 8 couples worldwide are thought to have difficulties conceiving, infertility is commonly seen as a woman's problem.
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Enormous advances in treating infertility in recent decades have helped couples conceive longed-for offspring they previously would not have had.
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Infertility is a significant global health problem, with specialists estimating that as many as one in six couples worldwide are affected.
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But perhaps the largest impact the Atlanta-based infertility startup hopes to make is increasing the focus on younger millennial women.
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IVF – Infertility affects roughly 12 percent of married women, but VA's medical benefits package specifically excludes provision of in vitro fertilization.
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WHO has called infertility a "global public health issue" and has calculated that more than 10% of women worldwide are impacted.
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In the meantime, Resolve's Collura says there's a need to educate employers on the benefits of providing infertility coverage for employees.
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Dr. Amanda Adeleye is a clinical fellow for reproductive endocrinology and infertility and studied at Columbia University in New York City.
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Beim wondered how these scientific advances were being used to treat infertility, but to her surprise no one was studying it.
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And while all three diseases are treatable with antibiotics, most cases continue to go undiagnosed, potentially causing infertility and other problems.
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As it turned out, Sudjic had polycystic ovary syndrome, a hormonal imbalance that causes irregular menstrual cycles, infertility and pelvic pain.
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Diagnosis male infertility Semen analysis is the microscopic examination of a man's ejaculate, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
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Whether that's an infertility struggle, a weight loss struggle, a financial struggle, or a relationship struggle, everyone is going through something.
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Compounded by the fact that my last rotation during residency was reproductive endocrinology and infertility, the statistics alarmed me even more.
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For a woman who already feels like her infertility is her own fault, this is the worst diagnosis you can receive.
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But according to a new analysis, the actual endometriosis-related risk for infertility may be only half of what we thought.
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But unlike a vasectomy, the goal is to make the infertility reversible with a second injection that would dissolve the polymer.
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Side effects of HSCT can include infertility, said Burt, who noted that women can choose to preserve their eggs before treatment.
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In vitro fertilisation, the field that they founded, has enabled millions of people worldwide to overcome infertility and have healthy babies.
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Cabdrivers might be willing to chat, but individual Egyptian men rarely disclosed their own infertility problems, even to close family members.
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Male infertility remained highly stigmatizing and emasculating; men often expected their wives to shoulder the blame for their childlessness in public.
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And how no one knows if her heterosexual child will grow up to want children or struggle one day with infertility.
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After I'd been diagnosed with age-related infertility, it was hard being treated as imperfect, even though I was perfectly healthy.
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Now, it is linking 5G signals to brain cancer, infertility, autism, heart tumors and Alzheimer's disease — claims that lack scientific support.
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The three main ways it manifests are through pelvic pain, infertility, and pelvic masses such as cysts, scar tissue, and fibroids.
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But many cases go undiagnosed, and the diseases can cause serious problems down the line, including infertility and increased H.I.V. risk.
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The twins were a (very pleasant) surprise after struggling with infertility for three years, five IUIs, and two rounds of IVF.
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I spoke with Lucky Sekhon, MD, a reproductive endocrinologist, infertility specialist, and board certified obstetrician and gynecologist to get some clarity.
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PFAS have been linked to an increased risk of cancer, immune system dysfunction, liver damage, developmental harm, infertility, and hormone disruption.
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I am sick of infertility being life's dominant topic, bored of the broken record, ready to hear a bright new song.
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"Men are a huge part of this problem," says Barbara Collura, the president and CEO of Resolve: the National Infertility Association.
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Holistic nutrition therapist Tara Engelberg, 33, posted the image on Instagram alongside a heartfelt and moving post about her infertility struggles.
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It aims to advance understanding of women's menstrual cycles and their relationship to infertility, osteoporosis, menopause and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
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Liz Smith is a pediatric nurse at a Massachusetts hospital who always dreamed of becoming a mother, but struggled with infertility.
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"Is the finding in this paper caused by the IVF procedure or is it caused by the infertility itself," Penzias asked.
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"But as Serena Chen, director of reproductive medicine at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, told the publication, the New Jersey Infertility Mandate in question "was a good thing when it came out, it really did help a lot of people with the issue, but it really is biased because it is based upon an old definition of infertility.
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Researchers still don't know why e-cigarettes might be linked to infertilityThe next step in the research process will be trying to better understand the link between vaping and infertility and whether these products could lead to infertility issues in young people who currently smoke, but are still years away from trying to get pregnant, Caron added.
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All three diseases are treatable for now, but if they're not diagnosed in time, they can lead to infertility or infant stillbirth.
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This may prove useful in treating certain cases of infertility, given that many fertilized eggs fail before they reach the blastocyst stage.
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There's a sense of abnormality and being "other" with infertility, so the idea of being like everybody else became a big deal.
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A screen shot from Goop's article on "The 8 Essential Crystals," in which it claims Carnelian helps treat infertility and PMS symptoms.
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Scientists have known about Catsper (the friendly, sperm-specific ion channel) since 2001, when they stumbled across it while studying male infertility.
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Or you may want to hear from people who now have children — through giving birth, surrogacy, or adoption — after struggling with infertility.
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Bisphenols and phthalates might negatively affect or delay puberty as well as raise the risk of obesity, infertility and other chronic conditions.
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About one in 10 couples deals with infertility in some way, and we became two more couples to add to the statistic.
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If left untreated, gonorrhea can cause genital scarring and inflammation, infertility, and increased vulnerability to other sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV.
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Acupuncture has the "potential effect of improved ovarian and follicular function," for women struggling with infertility, according to the American Pregnancy Association.
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After researching infertility doctors, she saw Dr. William Schoolcraft, the founder of the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, who handles extreme cases.
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All over the world, 45 million couples grapple with infertility; in almost half of those cases, it's because the man is infertile.
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Some infertility, then, was willed, which may account for the differing statistics among Caucasians and non-Caucasians; but the rest was not.
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I showed the product announcement to John Amory, a doctor at the University of Washington, who specializes in male infertility and contraception.
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"If you're talking about using these techniques for age-related infertility, that's really moving the human experimentation to a very large scale."
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Of these, infertility treatment is the most mature, though the landscape remains fragmented 41 years after the first IVF baby was born.
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Still, this is an advance in regenerative medicine that could bring us closer to solving infertility problems in women in the future.
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He knew that nuclear radiation can cause cancer and infertility, and he knew that, even under the best of circumstances, accidents happen.
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"I don't know you and I probably never will but as someone struggling with infertility I feel your pain," one fan wrote.
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Approximately one-quarter of all diagnosed infertility cases in the U.S. stem from a tubal factor, according to Columbia University Medical Center.
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"We suspected that women who did screen positive for depression were less likely to comply with infertility treatment recommendations," Dr. Crawford said.
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One thing I found particularly interesting, though, was how much the film's plot mirrored Children of Men (minus the whole infertility thing).
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Under the WHO's previous definition of infertility, IVF is only open to couples who can't get pregnant after a year of trying.
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Women who participate in the trial have what's called absolute uterine factor infertility (AUI), which means their uterus is nonfunctioning or nonexistent.
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For those who experienced infertility, 57 percent of women and 53 percent of men said they had sought help at some point.
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Today up to 2,000 former athletes are seriously ill, suffering from tumors, heart defects, infertility, depression, bulimia, and circulation and spinal problems.
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I think about some the things my friends have gone through lately—divorce, infertility, loss of a parent, loss of a job.
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Infertility often brings up feelings of shame, and talking about it, especially with others who are also experiencing it, can mitigate this.
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Other provisions included a new report on military waivers received by transgender individuals and an expansion of the military's infertility treatment programs.
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However, she soon discovered an entire community of "infertility warriors" who came together to help out a stranger trying to get pregnant.
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Ezra says all the right things — they can create a family through so many different ways, infertility doesn't change who Aria is.
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Union opened up about her struggles with infertility in her book, "We're Going to Need More Wine," revealing she's had multiple miscarriages.
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"Ovarian reserve in and of itself does not predict chance of conception particularly in a woman without a known history of infertility."
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The years of navigating fibroid tumors, surgeries and infertility finally came to an end with the birth of my second son, Oliver.
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Riffs on dating, aging, marriage, infertility and childbirth have the zing-and-run rhythm of sketch comedy, but structured for the page.
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Fueling this demand is the belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Vietnam, that pangolin scales can treat impotence and infertility.
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"Although the analysis of the semen sample is the first step to diagnose male infertility, it is not definitive," said Mínguez-Alarcón.
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For the study, she recruited men who with their partners were seeking infertility treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital between 2000 and 2493.
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Men also see a decline in sperm quality as they age, contributing to infertility issues in nearly half of couples, he said.
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Hawkins said she feels for the women who received these cards and who may be struggling with infertility and other related issues.
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To mark National Infertility Awareness Week, Refinery29 is dedicating a full week of coverage to an open discussion about becoming a parent.
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To mark National Infertility Awareness Week, Refinery21 is dedicating a full week of coverage to an open discussion about becoming a parent.
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I think it was probably a day after I started working here that we shared our experiences of infertility with each other.
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To mark National Infertility Awareness Week, Refinery240 is dedicating a full week of coverage to an open discussion about becoming a parent.
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Its use in the treatment of infertility in healthy couples is controversial and some claim its efficacy has yet to be proven.
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Still, I read so much about infertility that after 20 years on the pill, I doubted whether I could conceive at all.
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The armory will become a less warlike place when the harrowing update of Federico Garcia Lorca's tragedy of infertility comes to term.
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Some states require doctors to mention a specious link between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer, suicide, or future infertility.
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Selected works explore a bandit, a train ride, the experience of infertility, a mother-daughter relationship and a woman's harrowing psychological disintegration.
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Acupuncture has the "potential effect of improved ovarian and follicular function" for women struggling with infertility, according to the American Pregnancy Association.
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Here&aposs what you need to know about how common infertility is, who it affects, and what factors can play a role.
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It&aposs unclear whether stress causes infertility, but researchers have found that pregnancy rates increased in women who reduced their stress levels.
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Lia De Feo is the founder of Fly Bravely, a consultancy dedicated to de-stigmatizing infertility and raising awareness of infant loss.
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There's a touching moment in a flashback when Offred reveals to Moira that she's pregnant and afraid, given the rise in infertility.
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Infertility has been a great hardship, but it has shaped me and has given me my strength to persevere through any obstacle.
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In developing countries, it's estimated that one in every four couples could be affected by infertility, according to the World Health Organization.
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Previous studies have linked exposure to products containing hormone-disrupting chemicals, such as pesticides and phthalates, to infertility and poorer reproductive success.
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There is also a potential link between a lack of vitamin D and infertility and cardiovascular diseases, though more research is needed.
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I decided to talk about my infertility, write about it and advocate for legislation to make it easier for the next me.
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These tests allow customers to take preventative measures against any potential infertility, or simply let them know that they're safe to start trying.
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"It's been such an emotional roller coaster, and I feel as if I've had some insight into how heartbreaking infertility is," she said.
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But the idea that Natasha's infertility somehow makes her monstrous — not a real woman, potentially less than human — was weirdly embedded into Ultron.
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On the other side of the world, a Californian couple struggling with infertility begin the process that will end with them adopting her.
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Private Life, which screened the first night of the festival, is an infertility dramedy starring a career-great Kathryn Hahn, with Paul Giamatti.
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Melnick said male fertility is the sole cause in 20 percent of couples, and contributes to infertility in another 30 to 40 percent.
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""It really is going to change the way we think about cases of infertility that are currently unable to be treated by IVF.
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Dr. Crawford said that if people have friends or family members who are struggling with infertility, it is important to acknowledge their difficulty.
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Sargent — who described the shoot as part of a healing process — spoke through tears as she opened up about struggling with infertility herself.
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At a crossroads: 4 infertility journeys Years later, in her late 30s, she started hemorrhaging and was literally bleeding to death, she said.
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What helps is when people are compassionate about how difficult infertility can be no matter where you are on the journey, she said.
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" According to TODAY, Carrie and her husband, Jeff, struggled with infertility for a few years before having Hailey, who Claire called her "miracle.
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The goal is for the birth to mark the beginning of a new field of infertility treatment research, rather than be an outlier.
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PCOS is also linked with infertility, and many women with PCOS simultaneously suffer from coexisting metabolic and cardiovascular conditions, like diabetes and hypertension.
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The medical team believes that many more transplants need to be done before it could be offered as a standard treatment for infertility.
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"When we were in the heart of our struggle with infertility, we sometimes used humor as a coping mechanism," the Blakes told Mashable.
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We've just found that laughing at our problems sometimes makes them feel smaller, and couldn't resist the chance to poke fun at infertility.
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And let's not forget that for some, these events are painful — anyone who's struggled with infertility or pregnancy loss can attest to that.
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"Infertility is a very personal journey and you get to make the call on what you feel comfortable doing going forward," she says.
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He expects the coat-color gene drive to function in the lab by about 2020, and one that could cause infertility shortly thereafter.
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Overall, 12.5% of the women reported trying to conceive for one year without becoming pregnant, the timeline doctors typically use to define infertility.
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Only 44% of women without education beyond high school saw a medical provider for infertility, compared with 80.8% of women with college degrees.
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Plus, mothers-to-be who aware of the fact that other women struggle with infertility can feel guilty for complaining about their pregnancy.
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And then I realized: I'd never really seen someone African American in the public eye talking about endometriosis or their struggles with infertility.
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New way to conceive In a condition known as absolute uterine infertility, an absent, removed or diseased uterus can render a woman infertile.
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Uterus transplants could be a way for women with absolute uterine infertility to conceive, rather than having to adopt or opt for surrogacy.
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In January, Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas announced it, too, was opening a clinical trial for 10 women with uterine factor infertility.
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Banks, 43, had previously been open about her struggles with infertility, revealing that she had undergone IVF procedures in the hopes of conceiving.
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The Cleveland Clinic announced a research study in November in which it would perform uterus transplants on 10 women with uterine factor infertility.
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In Brown's novel the virus merely caused infertility, but screenwriter David Koepp has upped the stakes without any noticeable uptick in actual stakes.
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It claims to be the world's first fertility wearable that helps women plan for conception, although it's not for women who have infertility.
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Gradually, though, poor-world infertility is changing from a kind of random crisis visited upon some people to a broad difficulty affecting many.
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But while Obama's revelation may inspire a greater interest in the procedure, it does nothing to lower the financial barriers to infertility treatment.
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The reported infertility struggle even seeped into Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, which included a conversation about Kourtney potentially being a surrogate for Khloé.
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Imagine being able to conceive and birth a child despite infertility, or having been born without a womb or losing one to cancer.
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It's estimated that about one in every four couples in developing countries could be affected by infertility, according to the World Health Organization.
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While more research needs to be done, initial findings have found that risks associated with plastics include obesity, cancer, lower IQs, and infertility.
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They, like others, may never know their sex development was unusual, unless they're tested for infertility — or to compete in world-class sports.
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Celmatix aims to disprove the idea that older women can't have healthy children or that infertility is the result of poor lifestyle choices.
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Unless an investor had an infertility experience of their own or knew someone who had, fertility solutions and care were a tough sell.
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Some of the adverse health impacts from lead include neurological damage, a decrease in IQ, anemia, increased blood pressure, chronic headaches and infertility.
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One might wonder why my infertility diagnosis mattered if I had a wife full of eggs, but it's not as simple as that.
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Polycystic ovarian syndrome, or PCOS, is an endocrine system disorder with symptoms including excess body hair, weight gain, irregular periods, and even infertility.
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Although previous estimates vary wildly, most suggest the risk of infertility is twice as high as what researchers found in the current study.
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After a year of trying to conceive followed by a diagnosis of "unexplained infertility," the couple turned to adoption to expand their family.
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To be sure, there are very real and important differences between the Middle East and the West when it comes to male infertility.
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Hold these two books up against each other and, certainly, "Conceivability" is primarily a story about technology as a means to beat infertility.
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Because we have gone through infertility and so use to uncertainty, I think we've coped with this change in life a little better.
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She built her encyclopedic knowledge over 15 years of infertility, before she fell pregnant with her son and daughter, now five and six.
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And she has a bulletproof way of preventing overpopulation, too: by literally bullying her subjects into infertility, so she has exclusive breeding rights.
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The couple did not note on standard bureau medical forms that they had taken the drugs for his infertility and her thyroid disorder.
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After years of struggling with infertility, Prison Break actress Camille Guaty is expecting a baby boy this fall with husband Sy Rhys Kaye.
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One in every six women infected with chlamydia develops pelvic inflammatory disease, which can lead to chronic pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy or infertility.
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The researchers looked at their chances of seeking treatment for infertility and of fathering children, and also their risk of developing testicular cancer.
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Our public conversations surrounding infertility and mental health have separately been gaining traction in recent years and, thankfully, they are beginning to intersect.
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Chlamydia causes conjunctivitis, which can lead to blindness, urinary tract infections and infections of the reproductive organs that can lead to female infertility.
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Many fans were overjoyed for the star, but those facing infertility at an older age couldn&apost help wondering how she did it.
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She added: "Also, stress can impact infertility ... identifying stress and de-stressing is not easy, but something that all women should think about!"
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IVF is a procedure that's often costly, but is sometimes necessary for those who struggle with infertility and want to start a family.
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Tara Engelberg wrote an incredibly moving and emotional caption about how hard infertility is, and it&aposs resonated with women around the world.
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I frantically email a colleague who specializes in reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) and ask if she would be willing to see me.
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I reach out again to my reproductive endocrinology and infertility physician to let her know we're ready to move forward with next steps.
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IUDs were historically not considered appropriate for teenagers due to commonly held beliefs that they can result in infertility and cause pelvic infections.
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"It is safe to swim on your period," says Dr. Jacqueline Ho, MD, reproductive endocrinology and infertility expert at Keck Medicine of USC.
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That's why, Zelkowitz says, it's important for young men to be aware of lifestyle factors that may have an impact on their infertility.
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"It's important to appreciate that when you have a couple challenged with infertility, in about 40% to 5% of the time, we are able to attribute the male as the primary or contributory cause," said Dr. Natan Bar-Chama, director of the Center of Male Reproductive Health at RMA of New York and a board-certified urologist and male infertility specialist.
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The templates that we do have for male reproductive narratives tend to view men as "virile" from puberty to death (even though factors in the male partner account for about half of the known cases of infertility), as generally subsidiary to the efforts involved in making a baby, and less emotionally vulnerable than women when they experience infertility and pregnancy loss.
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Infertility has long been linked to an increased risk of premature deliveries and underweight babies, and the current study offers fresh evidence of this.
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Because, all-Americanly handsome agent Mark Tuello (Sam Jaeger) reveals, U.S. scientists have figured out men — like, say, Fred — are causing the infertility problem.
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Mycoplasma genitalium, or MG, is a sexually transmitted bacteria that can cause pelvic inflammatory disease and, ultimately, infertility in women if not treated properly.
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Because I know people who really struggle with infertility, and they do internalize the language of self-blame that it's some kind of failure.
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The biological connection between early pregnancy exposure to stressful life experiences and male infertility isn't well understood, Hart and colleagues note in Human Reproduction.
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Aside from brain and head cancer, the guidelines note, radio frequency energy has been suspected of causing infertility, headaches, and memory or learning problems.
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After years of watching her daughter struggle with infertility, Thompson decided to carry her 28-year-old daughter's first child for her, reported CNN.
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I have an opportunity to represent one of the 176 million women globally who have this, and then the other percentage who have infertility.
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There's a "cloak of vague sexual shame" surrounding infertility, says Dr. Alice Domar, the executive director of the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health.
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I wrote a CNN iReport in honor of Infertility Awareness Week, hoping to inspire others and let other women know that they weren't alone.
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But what I do know with certainty -- even more so now than a year ago -- infertility doesn't end with the birth of a child.
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Once the study team factored in women's age and other health issues, participants with sleep disorders were 3.7 times more likely to experience infertility.
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Oxidative stress can also damage sperm DNA, which appears to be associated with infertility, failure of fertility treatments and pregnancy loss, according to Brady.
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"I think realistically, it's pretty unlikely that she got pregnant twice," Jennifer Eaton, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at Duke University told Gizmodo.
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RHONJ Star Teresa Giudice Joins Us Live, Plus Gabrielle Union Opens Up About Her Infertility Struggles Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
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For ovarian cancer, the increased risk was limited to women who had endometriosis, female-factor infertility such as tubal disease, or an ovary disorder.
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Infertility Awareness Week, April 24 through April 30, inspired the couple to take the pictures and post them on their blog, On An Adventure.
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The disease, spread through sexual contact or from mother to joey, causes widespread infertility, blindness, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and can ultimately be fatal.
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"This is going to be the first fully automated device to make infertility testing as simple as home pregnancy tests for women," he said.
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It's the underlying plot of the Handmaid's Tale, the hit series depicting life inside a U.S. faced with infertility, militant patriarchy, and religious extremism.
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"Often people are tested for it when there's evidence of infertility but then it's too late," Dr. Jessica Richman, founder of uBiome told TechCrunch.
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If that isn't enough to convince you, the MythCrashers also talked to Parker about the myth that having an abortion causes depression and infertility.
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So these aren't perfect measures of male infertility, and the truth is we don't have good data on whether we've hit a reproductive apocalypse.
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If we could just measure things more accurately, these pitches argue, we could solve eating disorders, infertility, chronic pain, depression—the list goes on.
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Those who had children after age 35 were more likely to report a period of infertility than those who had children before age 303.
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The inadequacies that male infertility can provoke aren't automatically erased just because modern technology makes it easier for people to have their own children.
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They say they wish Planned Parenthood had been in their town then, as the clinic, unlike her gynecologist's office, treats infertility without long waits.
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After a year of trying without getting pregnant, she told People, she and Caldwell were able to conceive after a round of infertility treatments.
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In The Handmaid's Tale, mass pollution and growing infertility has led to a coup by a religious group known as the Sons of Jacob.
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Infertility is common because scarring from the condition can blocks eggs from traveling through the fallopian tubes and may also damage eggs or sperm.
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"If not treated, gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis can have serious consequences, such as infertility, neurological issues, and an increased risk for HIV," said Harvey.
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The World Health Organization declared infertility to be the third most serious disease worldwide in the 235st century, behind only cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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The spiraling costs associated with the "infertility industry" mean that the benefits of new assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are not equally available to all.
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She did not have risk factors like infertility or endometriosis, but she had dusted baby powder between her legs every day for 21994 years.
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In a recent interview with PEOPLE, the television personality, who has been candid about her infertility struggle, opened up about those future family plans.
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One piece of her journey that she delves into: the struggles she faced with infertility, a subject that so often remains in the shadows.
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There are currently limited treatment options for uterine fibroids, which cause heavy menstrual bleeding, heavy or painful periods, anemia and, in some cases, infertility.
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If left untreated, chlamydia can lead to uterus and fallopian tube infections, infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease, chronic pain, and an increased risk of HIV.
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There is no good data to suggest that "sperm-friendly" lubricants are needed for a couble who does not have a male-factor infertility.
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A hormone test revealed that she had diminished ovarian reserve—a condition that affects between 10 and 20173 percent of women who experience infertility.
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Because it may trigger pelvic inflammatory disease in the female reproductive system, it has been associated with infertility, miscarriage, premature birth and even stillbirth.
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It doesn't help that the writers also cram infidelity, infertility, human trafficking, a medical procedural and a murder mystery into the season's six hours.
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Women going through infertility treatments spend a lot of time thinking about success rates: what they are, what boosts them, and what lowers them.
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I'd heard great things about Clomid, a drug that can induce ovulation and is often considered the first line of defense in infertility treatment.
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Gonorrhea can also damage the womb to the point of infertility, which is obviously very worrying when it comes to these increasingly untreatable strains.
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We watched them grapple with the same serious issues that real-world couples have — infertility, adoption, and prioritizing one spouse's career over the other.
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Most egg-freezing services, including Extend, do not accept insurance, as most insurance providers don't cover the steep costs of fertility or infertility treatments.
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They also have higher rates of infertility, in that they might not ovulate as often and it might take them longer to get pregnant.
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IVF has improved substantially since 1978 — for example through technology that injects sperm directly into the egg — but some forms of infertility remain untreatable.
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For men, not getting treatment for these two STDs can result in chronic and severe pain in the testicles and in rare cases, infertility.
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As more and more infertile men sought the widely advertised "ICSI solution," male infertility was transformed from a masculinity problem into a medical condition.
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Doctors and researchers who are skeptical of the findings argue that infertility would already be rising if sperm counts were really dropping so precipitously.
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Dr. Zev Williams, chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at Columbia University Medical Center, sees value in both fertility apps and wearables.
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Reproductive endocrinologists — ob-gyns who have undergone training in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility — can facilitate the process by stimulating ovulation with drugs.
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"I cut off 70 percent of my stomach so I could have the chance to be treated for infertility," she wrote in an email.
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She doesn't think weight was the primary cause of Balzano's infertility, because the couple remained unable to conceive even after her surgical weight loss.
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"This guidance addresses a gap in current guidelines addressing COVID-19, which only indirectly mention infertility and its treatment," ASRM said in the statement.
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Boys who have undescended testes have 2.4 times the risk of developing testicular cancer, Dr. Schneuer said, and 2.2 times the risk of infertility.
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The option would relieve pain for people struggling with infertility, and help address a shortage of sperm donors in the UK, the authors argue.
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The former president of Republika Srpska, Bosnia's breakaway Serbian province, became Dragan David Dabic, an energy healer offering spiritual cures for infertility and disease.
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Approximately one in eight couples fail to conceive after one year of trying and seek medical treatment for infertility, researchers note in European Urology.
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"We must find out which ones are to blame for the problems with male reproduction, including male infertility and testicular cancer," Professor Skakkebaek said.
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Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fixates on women, tracking infertility in the U.S. by tallying the number of supposedly infertile women.
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In 2018, Stone brought his shattering version of Federico García Lorca's "Yerma," about a woman crazed by infertility, to New York's Park Avenue Armory.
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Using CRISPR in a lab in London, Burt and a colleague, Andrea Crisanti, have built gene-drive systems to spread female infertility in mosquitoes.
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Eve Feinberg, MD is assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University and vice president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
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The WHO has called infertility a "global public health issue" and has calculated that more than 10% of women around the world are affected.
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"Couples suffering from infertility need to exercise caution especially if they are residing in areas with high ambient particulate matter," Gupta said by email.
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With her newfound support, she lost weight and despite the chance of PCOS-related infertility, she was ecstatic to be able to get pregnant.
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Even when the cause of infertility is due to male factors like sperm quality and quantity, the treatment is usually on the woman's body.
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Instead, it develops into growths, often described as lesions, which cause the disease's most common symptoms: extreme pelvic pain, heavy menstrual bleeding, and infertility.
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Horror, high school stories, infertility comedies, post-apocalyptic dramas, and more ensured that the festival was a succession of startling and sometimes unsettling delights.
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It aims to track the growth, motor and social development of children and its correlation with infertility treatments, obesity, rising maternal age and pregnancy complications.
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More than two decades after Malice hit theaters, infertility and miscarriage storylines are luckily a little less one-note, at least on the small screen.
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In the midst of all that, every one of them is coping with real life adult problems like divorce, infidelity, infertility, and their own mortality.
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FGM can have devastating consequences for women and girls who endure it, including complications during childbirth, infertility, infections, loss of sexual pleasure and even death.
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The costs to individuals of untreated STDs can be even more staggering and can include infertility, a higher risk of acquiring HIV, and certain cancers.
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Franks, the outlet reports, asked at least two staffers to act as surrogates for him and his wife, who had struggled for years with infertility.
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"Being able to get pregnant with one child is a huge blessing — anybody who's gone through infertility treatments can speak true to that," she adds.
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Groups around pregnancy test addiction, like the Pee On a Stick Freak Facebook group, have popped up as a community for women dealing with infertility.
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Chlamydia and gonorrhea, which are far more common infections, can also cause long-term damage (like infertility) if left untreated, the ASHA spokesperson points out.
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According to the suit, the law in New Jersey defines infertility as when a woman cannot conceive after a year or more of unprotected intercourse.
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He has issued regulations making sure that all women, no matter their sexual orientation or marital status, can qualify for insurance coverage of infertility treatments.
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She said she hopes the upcoming Pentagon study will provide more data and help fight the stigma around female service members' health and infertility issues.
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" On Lee's Instagram post explaining her infertility struggles, one user penned: "I read this 20 times, sitting here in tears understating your pain and hurt.
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Despite the fact that it takes two people make a baby, women often bear the burden of stressing and dealing with the realities of infertility.
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After an average follow-up of about five years, 29 participants with sleep disorders had developed infertility, as had 34 women in the comparison group.
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This approach shaves the narrative contours of women's lives down to the perfunctory waystations of love, childbirth, and the disappointments of infertility and old age.
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Instead of focusing on women who risk passing on mitochondrial diseases to their offspring, he hopes to use the technique as a cure for infertility.
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"I don't think that we should discriminate between who benefits, a patient with infertility versus a patient who has an inheritable genetic disease," he said.
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Should the method work in humans, it could introduce powerful new ways of treating infertility—and even allow same-sex couples to produce biological offspring.
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"A couple of years ago a friend gifted me with a rose bush, and she was actually dealing with infertility at the time," Joanna recalls.
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The women say that Franks made them uncomfortable when he openly spoke to them about he and his wife's infertility and surrogacy issues, CNN reports.
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Shortly after, the US Food and Drug Administration stepped in with warning letters, abruptly bringing such work in the American infertility scene to a standstill.
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And "Bottle by My Bed" is an infertility song—a rare thing, as I happen to know—brought to fruition by a mother of five.
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Anderson-Bialis launched the platform with his wife, co-founder Deborah Anderson-Bialis, in 2016 after the pair overcame their own set of infertility issues.
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Infertility rates in the study ranged from 5.8% among women 23 to 24 years old up to 20.5% among women 40 to 240.6 years old.
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Among women earning under $25,000 a year, 33.1% of women with infertility sought treatment, compared with 66.8% of infertile women earning at least $100,000 annually.
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The beads need clinical trials before BEING used for infertility treatments A more immediate application for the beads might be selecting sperm for fertility treatments.
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But, stigmas surrounding the discussion of miscarriages, stillbirths, infertility and conscious childlessness means that motherhood and parenting can often feel like the only valid conversation.
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But when it comes to the mass infertility the story's characters deal with — the reason the handmaids were created — how much is based in reality?
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Clinical trial The Cleveland Clinic announced a research study in November in which it would perform uterus transplants on 10 women with uterine factor infertility.
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The star had previously been open about her struggles with infertility, revealing that she had undergone in vitro fertilization procedures in the hopes of conceiving.
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"Human pregnancies are very inefficient, and in the most extreme cases, this is leading to infertility, where people just cannot have a child," Rivron said.
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Obama's speaking out about her own infertility will hopefully show African-American and other minority women that IVF is not exclusively a white woman's solution.
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Where it existed at all, teachers delivered the Victorian message that improper sexual activity produced horrific consequences, from warts and constipation to insanity and infertility.
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He said they were referred to a civilian fertility clinic, since the Navy had no trained infertility specialists on the West Coast at the time.
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"We do know that women who are obese or overweight often have problems with irregular cycles, infertility, trying to conceive can take longer," Wu said.
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The transplant was carried out as part of a clinical trial to study new infertility treatment options for women who don't have a functioning uterus.
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Yet they still spent about $183,000 in total to get pregnant, she tells CNBC Make It. Each year, millions of American families struggle with infertility.
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Because infertility has long been considered a women's health issue, insurance companies perceived it as a niche issue and denied coverage to those experiencing it.
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Meanwhile, approximately 12% of American women have difficulty becoming pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term, making infertility a condition roughly as common as diabetes.
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According to the CDC, lead exposure can cause miscarriage, stillbirths, and infertility, and ill-health effects can pass from pregnant women to their unborn children.
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Less than 28% of women worldwide have some type of "absolute uterine factor infertility," in which an abnormality of the womb interferes with fetal development.
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In other words, long-term side effects from their treatments, such as infertility, need to be avoided if possible or, when unavoidable, must be managed.
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When born, these children would often find themselves with abnormal reproductive organs—often causing infertility—and an elevated risk of developing various forms of cancer.
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They're all generally easy to cure with a timely antibiotics prescription, but when left untreated, they can lead to infertility or life-threatening health complications.
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An infertility clinic has offered Corporal Wilson and Ms. Black a discount, and friends have started a GoFundMe website to help pay for the treatment.
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Although private insurers often cover the physician consultation and diagnostic testing, they rarely cover egg or sperm banking without a diagnosis of infertility, said Spencer.
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Climate change, biodiversity loss, soil infertility, deforestation, and ocean acidification are among the manmade threats that affect agriculture, energy, public health, economic growth, and immigration.
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But then this February, the British government announced that it has approved experiments by scientists at Francis Crick Institute to treat certain cases of infertility.
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Endometriosis — in which the cells of the endometrial lining grow outside of the uterus — is one of the most commonly-cited factors in infertility issues.
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The jump in the number of chlamydia infections is particularly concerning for women: If the disease goes undiagnosed or untreated, it can lead to infertility.
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Extend Fertility, which has previously raised $10 million, plans to use the latest investment to open labs in new markets and expand its infertility services.
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Celmatix tries to take the guesswork out of getting pregnant based on certain data points, but that data can uncover some fascinating reasons for infertility.
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Women navigating infertility and IVF, along with OB-GYNs trying to educate people, have taken to TikTok to spread their message and share their stories.
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As of writing this, videos with the hashtag "infertility," have been viewed 12.7 million times, and "IVF" videos have been viewed nearly six million times.
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A spokesman for the company said the suit takes issue with the law and not Horizon which covers "infertility services equally, regardless of sexual orientation".
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But it can cause severe bleeding and health issues including infections and infertility, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths.
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But the end result may be a new social crisis of male infertility — with potentially wrenching emotional implications for both the men and women involved.
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The changes began with Islamic clerics, who were among the world's first religious leaders to approve in vitro fertilization as a solution to marital infertility.
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After seven years of infertility and one horrendous miscarriage, I adopted my daughter, Julia, from Ethiopia at 8 months old and made motherhood my mission.
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Dr. Fox is an assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Harvard University and an obstetrician-gynecologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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It's possible that as many as 4.5 percent of cases of apparently nongenetic diseases, from infertility to kidney failure, are the result of such mutations.
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