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BACKGROUND Impact of fetal gender on prematurity has been primarily investigated in singleton pregnancies. In an attempt to understand better how fetal gender may affect gestational length in twin gestations after in vitro fertilization, same-sex twins and opposite twins were compared for pregnancy duration. METHODS This study evaluated 113 women at ages 20 to 39 years with consecutive dichor...

Background: Chaste tree is a phytoestrogenic herb and has a long tradition as a herbal remedy and was used in ancient times as an aphrodisiac. This study was conducted to evaluate in vitro fertilization ability and cleavage rate of sperm in chaste tree essential oil treated male mice. Materials and Methods: In this study, 10 adult male mice were divided in to two groups: group 1 as control and ...

Recent decades have seen a shift in the management and discussion of biomedicine. Issues once considered by doctors and scientists are now handled by a diverse array of participants, including philosophers, lawyers, theologians and lay representatives. This new approach, known as 'bioethics', has become the norm in regulatory committees and public debate. In this article, I argue that bioethics...

A content analysis of chat utterances generated by in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients and healthcare professionals revealed that most chat is about the treatment itself and not about childlessness; 56% discloses psychological aspects, 27% physical aspects, and 17% social aspects of the treatment; and that accounts of both external and internal coping behaviors could be identified.

Human cloning and in vitro fertilisation may seem very different procedures; certainly, they are regarded very differently by many people at the present time. IVF is seen as a mainstream procedure raising few ethical problems, while cloning, or ‘reproductive’ cloning, is widely regarded as beyond the moral pale. In this paper, I argue that the two procedures have more in common than might at fi...

One hundred thirty-five infertile patients were enrolled to investigate the efficacy of phloroglucinol-induced inhibition of the endometrial fundocervical wave and its effect on in vitro fertilization (IVF). We found that phloroglucinol significantly inhibited (P<0.05) peristaltic fundocervical wave, suggesting a feasible way of application of phloroglucinol to suppress endometrial waves during...