Female Infertility

After years of advocacy and research, clinicians increasingly recognize the physical symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome. Yet, many women with PCOS have a range of serious psychosocial comorbidities that often go unaddressed.

Women with vs. without psoriasis are at an increased risk for pregnancy loss, and women with moderate to severe psoriasis may also experience lower fertility rates, according to a study.

Among women with obesity and unexplained infertility, weight loss before infertility treatment did not increase the likelihood of having a healthy live birth, according to findings published in PLoS Medicine.

In October, the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced that it had established the United States’ fourth — and the Southeast’s first — uterus transplant program.

Results from a large retrospective study confirmed an association between Chlamydia trachomatis and an increased risk for pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and female infertility, researchers reported.