Men and women in homosexual relationships have long been plagued by situational infertility. Today in 2012 - setting aside politics, social mores and various other non-biological factors - it is impossible for two people of the same gender to have a biological child (23 chromosomes from one partner, 23 chromosomes from the other partner) together. But when you put science, a doctor and ...

It would be so easy, if only we could get them all together like this when we hit D.C. in April for Advocacy Day. Unfortunately, immediately after this photo was taken, the Representatives scattered ...

Recently, IVFConnections reported that both men and women with type 1 diabetes are more likely to experience infertility. Type 1 diabetes is a disorder that is both polygenic (more than one genetic factor can be involved) as well as having an autoimmune component.

Now we've learned that two other autoimmune-related diseases, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are also linked to infertility in women.
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A recent investigation into the link between Type I diabetes and infertility was recently published in Diabetic Medicine. This study, one of the largest to investigate the relationship between diabetes and infertility, was undertaken by Andreas Holstein, MD, from the First Department of Medicine
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An article in the latest issue of Nature Medicine has everyone in the infertility community buzzing. Researchers say they have isolated rare stem cells in women's ovaries that have the capability of creating new eggs.

Women are born with a lifetime of eggs and do not produce additional eggs as they age. (Men, on the other hand, produce sperm continually at an average of 100 million a day.) An average woman's body matures ...

Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction (MFPR), or selective reduction (as it is commonly referred to) is a procedure done when the risks of a multifetal pregnancy to the mother and fetuses are too high to expect a healthy pregnancy outcome. MFPR involves ...