Counseling Multiple-Heritage Couples

Sexual counseling in elderly couples.

INTRODUCTION Sexual health of the elderly has long been either a taboo or a non-medical life style luxury issue. Increasing longevity of women and men, reconceptualization of sexual health as part of general health, and the development of drugs aiming at improvement of sexual function have contributed to a change in the attitude of the elderly and the medical community, thus increasing the dema...

Preconception Counseling in Couples Undergoing Fertility Treatment

BACKGROUND The preconception period is crucial to fertility and pregnancy health. Offering education and counseling to couples being treated for infertility improves the outlook of treatment. The aim of this study is to assess preconception education and counseling in a population of Iranian couples treated for infertility. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional study of 268 individu...

Preconception Counseling in Couples Undergoing Fertilitym Treatment

preconception counseling in couples undergoing fertilitym treatment

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Couples cull embryos to halt heritage of cancer.

For most parents who have used preimplantation diagnosis, the burden of playing God has been trumped by the near certainty that diseases like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia will afflict the children who carry the genetic mutation that causes them. The procedure has also been used to avoid passing on Huntington’s disease, a severe neurological disease that typically does not surface unti...