News tagged with fertile women

Surprising results in a new study on childbearing and education

In almost every country, women with more education have fewer children. But does education reduce childbearing, or does childbearing get in the way of education, or both? New research by Joel E. Cohen and colleagues in Norway ...

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created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Many US women have children by more than one man

The first national study of the prevalence of multiple partner fertility shows that 28 percent of all U.S. women with two or more children have children by more than one man.

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created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Mother's obesity may lead to infertility in the next generation

Levels of the hormone ghrelin are low in obese women and a recent study accepted for publication in Endocrinology, a publication of The Endocrine Society, reports that mice whose mothers had low ghrelin levels were less f ...

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created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Rocking the cradle after 45

Career women who put babies on hold until after 40, or even 45, will be reassured by new research from Tel Aviv University. Even though there are associated risks for babies when postponing child-bearing, the neonates can ...

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created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Contact with dads drops when women ovulate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Through an innovative use of cell phone records, researchers at UCLA, the University of Miami and Cal State, Fullerton, have found that women appear to avoid contact with their fathers during ovulation.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Blood group may affect woman's fertility

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the US have for the first time demonstrated that having type O blood may have a negative effect on fertility through a lower egg count and poor egg quality. Women with type A blood appeared ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

UK mothers having fewer children, older

Over the last two decades women in Britain had fewer children than they originally intended, according to a study by the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton, published today in the ONS publication ...

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created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marriage patterns drive fertility decline

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have applied an evolutionary 'use it or lose it' principle when studying past marriage patterns, to show that marriage can influence the evolution of age-patterns ...

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created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Ticking biological clock increases women's libido, new research shows

As more women wait until their 30s and 40s to have children, they are more willing to engage in a variety of sexual activities to capitalize on their remaining childbearing years, according to new research by psychologists ...

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created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Increasing fertility threefold

According to the American Pregnancy Association, six million women a year deal with infertility. Now, a Tel Aviv University study is giving new hope to women who want to conceive ― in the form of a pill they can find ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Heavy women's miscarriage risk higher after IVF

(AP) -- Overweight women have a much higher risk of a miscarriage after having in-vitro fertilization compared with slim women, new research says.

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created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists say blood test could predict menopause

(AP) -- Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research shows personality can predict fertility

The reproductive success of both men and women is influenced by our personality traits, according to new research from the University of Sheffield.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Most Young Women with Menopause-like Condition Retain Store of Eggs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to what researchers had previously believed, most young women and girls who experience a menopause-like condition called primary ovarian insufficiency still have immature eggs in their ovaries, according ...

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created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

American Women are Over- (and Under-) Estimating How Many Children They Will Have

(PhysOrg.com) -- Regardless of their level of education, most women in the United States expect to have two children. But women with more education tend to have fewer than two while those with less education tend to have ...

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created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0