Infertility - in women

in women Infertility is the inability to become pregnant after 1 year of having regular, unprotected sexual intercourse. This is called primary infertility. If you are able to get pregnant but you always have miscarriages, you have secondary infertility.

Womens Health Issues - See What Your Doctors Are Reading! This clinical condition affects about 10-20% of the women of reproductive age (15-45yrs). The typical symptoms are severe menstrual cramping, pain during and after sex, and relative infertility, but...

Counseling infertile women improves their pregnancy chances Group psychological counseling can significantly increase pregnancy rates among women who have tried without success to get pregnant for 1 to 2 years...

Gynecologists Investigate Massage As Infertility Treatment Research gynecologists are studying "site specific" massage as a non-surgical infertility treatment...

IVF may be helpful for natural conception Going through infertility treatments that result in the birth of a child seems to make some couples fertile. Almost 21% of those who successfully conceive as a result of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or sperm injection into the egg...

Women can retain fertility after cervical cancer A surgery for cervical cancer enables some young women to later become pregnant and bear children, without increasing their risk of having cancer spread, according to a report...

More Babies, Fewer Multiples Born Using New IVF Technique A new laboratory procedure offers fresh hope to women who have failed to become pregnant after repeated attempts at in vitro fertilization (IVF)...

Getting The Girl There is nothing sleek or high-tech about this third-floor conference room in Fairfax, Va., except, perhaps, the bright red laser pointer that skitters across the eerie greenish slide of phosphorescent sperm...

National Cancer Institute Releases Backgrounder On Cancer Survivorship Cancer, once considered incurable, is no longer a certain death sentence. Since the 1971 National Cancer Act, much of the research into early cancer detection and treatment has paid off. Mortality rates for most major cancers...