Fertility

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Patients who received fertility treatments may be able to have a naturally conceived live birth in the future, data presented here showed.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Only half of hospitals across the United States offer health care specifically to transgender and gender-diverse people, and only 23% of those offer fertility care to this population.

Women with a higher allostatic load — an indicator of chronic stress — experienced lower fecundability, according to data published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.

At-home medical testing, ranging from cancer screening to COVID-19 detection, may be transforming health care, but some direct-to-consumer hormone test kits have raised red flags for endocrinologists.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with hematologist, medical educator and University of Pennsylvania director of the women’s thrombosis and hemostasis program, Ariela Marshall, MD, about fertility advocacy for patients and physicians, navigating the medical system as physician parents and more.

The socioeconomic environment of a neighborhood may influence the ability to become pregnant, according to researchers.

Implementing fallopian tube recanalization — an interventional radiology procedure — after selective salpingography may enable infertile women to conceive without undergoing more invasive treatments, according to researchers.

The ASRM recently announced a list of researchers who will receive funding from the ASRM Research Institute in 2022.

In this video, Victoria Krogg, APRN, CNP, at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, discussed presentations from Oncology Nursing Society Congress 2022 on fertility and sexual health concerns of oncology patients.

Most male adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease reported a desire to have children later in life but few knew of disease-related fertility issues, according to study results published in Blood Advances.