success rates of reproductive medical interventions. Useful may be free information sessions for patients, for example. It has been suggested that family planning and reproductive medicine aspects should be an integral part of sex education at school – just like education about contraception and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. 5 However, it is not only infertile people who may lack...

There is a wealth of research exploring the psychological consequences of infertility and assisted reproduction technology, a substantial body of sociological and anthropological work on 'reproductive disruptions' of many kinds and a small but growing literature on patient perspectives of the quality of care in assisted reproduction. In all these fields, research studies are far more likely to ...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the most common pregnancy complications which affect mother and offspring. In addition to adverse perinatal outcomes, it may lead permanent health problems for mother, such as type 2 (T2DM) cardiovascular disease (CVD), while increasing risk future obesity, CVD, T2DM GDM in child. Approximately 15% women seek fertility treatment. Over last decade, h...

in the previous studies, the rate of primary infertility was reported differently. it seems the main reasons are related to the different methods of data collection and information analysis. therefore, introducing a precise method to determine the infertile couples and the population exposed to the risk of infertility is an important issue to study primary infertility.the proposed methodology f...

INTRODUCTION Infertility is a medical problem which influences all the dimensions of one's individual and social life and can expose him/her to psycho-physical, socio-economic, sexual and family challenges. This study was designed to compare the quality of life of fertile and infertile women. MATERIALS & METHODOLOGY This is a case-control analytical study in which 180 fertile and infertile wo...

UNLABELLED The core business of reproductive health care in developing countries is HIV/AIDS, contraception and maternal care and not one single reproductive health care program is dealing with couples unable to reproduce. How strange to have on the one hand the reproductive medicine clinics in the resource rich countries focusing mainly on infertility care and on the other hand reproductive he...

Spermatogenesis is an essential stage in human male gamete development, which is regulated by many Y chromosome specific genes. Most of these genes are centred in a specific region located on the long arm of the human Y chromosome known as the azoospermia factor region (AZF). Deletion events are common in Y chromosome because of its peculiar structural organization. Astonishingly, among the sev...

Background: To determine the impact of infertility on all aspects of female sexual function. Materials and Methods: A literature search was conducted on PubMed. Several methods have been used for evaluation of female sexual functions one of them is the questionnaire included of the female sexual function index (FSFI). FSFI is currently the most frequently used female sexual dysfunction question...

Male infertility may occur due to obstructive and non-obstructive reasons, some pathologies be corrected with surgical medical treatment. Such treatment increase the possibility of spontaneous pregnancy, success assisted reproductive technology, also testicular sperm retrieval rate. This review will focus on alternatives in infertile males. Although options for varicocele men include open surgi...

In Switzerland, infertility is the main reason for involuntary culling of dairy cows. According to several studies, 25 to 35 % of dairy cows are culled because of reproductive problems (Rust, 2001; Aeberhard et al., 1997; Stärk et al., 1997). Failure to conceive, absent or unobservable cyclicity and embryonic loss are the most important culling reasons within the “reproductive problems”-complex...