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Tag: fertility
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Health
Worries about depressed men and IVF are unfounded
New study reveals no correlation between anxiety, regardless of antidepressant use, and IVF outcomes or live birth rate.
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Health
Study shows higher sperm counts in men who lift heavy objects
Occupational factors, such as physical demands and work schedules, were associated with higher sperm concentrations and serum testosterone, according to a new study.
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Health
Antioxidant reverses most BPA-induced fertility damage in worms
Treatment with a naturally occurring antioxidant, CoQ10, restores many aspects of fertility in C. elegans worms following exposure to BPA. The findings offer a possible path toward undoing BPA-induced reproductive harms in people.
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Arts & Culture
To control women, fertility, and nature itself
“Love in a Mist (and the Politics of Fertility),” the fall exhibit at the Graduate School of Design, examines ways culture seeks to control women and nature.
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Health
Pesticides result in lower sperm counts
Men who ate fruits and vegetables with higher levels of pesticide residues had lower sperm counts and lower percentages of normal sperm than those who ate produce with lower residue levels, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Health
Putting off baby
Panelists at HSPH examined the trend toward delayed parenting identified in a recent government report.
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Science & Tech
Managing an aging populace
Aging, health care, and the challenges facing the globe’s women were the focus of a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
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Nation & World
Explaining the baby bust
Postindustrial countries from Japan to Italy are experiencing startling low birthrates, but the entry of women into the workforce isn’t to blame, according to Sociology Professor Mary Brinton, whose research looks at more subtle factors, including attitudes toward men’s and women’s roles in the workplace and the home.
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Health
Cut calories, increase egg quality
A strategy that has been shown to reduce age-related health problems in several animal studies may also combat a major cause of age-associated infertility and birth defects.
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Science & Tech
Chimps in wild appear not to regularly experience menopause
A pioneering study of wild chimpanzees has found that these close human relatives do not routinely experience menopause, rebutting previous studies of captive individuals which had postulated that female chimpanzees…
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Campus & Community
Appetite hormone restores fertility
A hormone called leptin has been trumpeted as an appetite suppressor and a possible treatment for obesity. New research shows that “a clear connection also exists between fat, or energy…
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Formin gene may explain a common cause of female infertility
Harvard Medical School researchers Philip Leder and Benjamin Leader have discovered that oocytes from female mice without the formin gene Fmn2 cannot correctly position the metaphase I DNA-spindle. This produces…
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Health
Sorting good eggs from bad ones
An oocyte is an immature egg cell in the ovaries. Before a woman is born, her ovaries will contain about five million eggs. At birth, about three million of those…
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Health
Cell death in eggs traced to smoking
A woman is born with just so many egg cells, called oocytes. When she begins ovulating, she has about 400. Even though that may seem like a lot, considering the…