Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have a major impact on the heath of people every day -- from diseases like AIDS and syphilis to drug-resistant gonorrhea and herpes. But few know that chlamydia, ...

Attractive women started showing up in summer 2024 at a fertility clinic in southern Moscow in response to an unusual marketing campaign: free sperm. The sperm belonged to Pavel Durov, billionaire ...

For years, Emily Kammeyer Sumner’s life revolved around a single, all-consuming goal: becoming a mother. After five years of IVF treatments and infertility, that goal was finally realized. Today, she ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 12: Medical workers and IVF patients listen during a news conference on access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments outside of the U.S. Capitol Building on June 12, 2024 in ...

Emma Kennedy is affiliated with the Center for Genetics and Society. According to Politico, anti-abortion groups lobbied against a requirement for employers to cover IVF. Instead, some vouched for ...

Scientists have identified a protein that may be key to proper sperm formation. Without it, male mice produced no viable sperm, they found. A team at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today called on countries to make fertility care safer, fairer and more affordable for all in its first-ever global guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and ...

Nov 28 (Reuters) - Infertility is an overlooked public health challenge and affordable treatment should be available within national health systems, the World Health Organization said on Friday in its ...

I was 43 when I learned that I have silent endometriosis. I’d heard of endometriosis—a chronic disease where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus, typically on the ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning skin cells into eggs capable of producing early human embryos. The ...

Human fertility hinges on a delicate molecular ballet that begins even before birth. UC Davis researchers have uncovered how special protein networks safeguard chromosomes as eggs and sperm form, ...

WASHINGTON — Two professional organizations with different approaches to treating infertility, one backed by supporters of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement and anti-abortion groups, ...