News tagged with fertile women
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 ...
Unnatural selection: Birth control pills may alter choice of partners
There is no doubt that modern contraception has enabled women to have unprecedented control over their own fertility. However, is it possible that the use of oral contraceptives is interfering with a woman's ability to choose, ...
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Late motherhood boosts family lifespan
Women who have babies naturally in their 40s or 50s tend to live longer than other women. Now, a new study shows their brothers also live longer, but the brothers' wives do not, suggesting the same genes prolong ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 04, 2009 |
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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 ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 04, 2011 |
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New blood test will show women's egg levels: report
Women will soon be able to tell how many eggs they have in their ovaries in a simple hormone test that Australian researchers said Sunday could revolutionise family planning and fertility treatment.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 21, 2010 |
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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
Nov 29, 2010 |
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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
Jun 08, 2010 |
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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
Jun 27, 2010 |
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Doctors say more ovary transplants possible
(AP) -- Two new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors announced Monday.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 29, 2009 |
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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.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Research suggests link between infertility, low egg reserve, and breast/ovarian cancer gene (BRCA1)
A New York Medical College physician who specializes in restoring or preserving fertility in female cancer patients has discovered a possible link between the presence of breast cancer genes and infertility.
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Fertility drugs do not increase risk of ovarian cancer
The use of fertility drugs does not increase a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer, finds a large study from Danish researchers published on bmj.com today.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Research finds attractive women increase risky behaviour in young men
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research suggests that the presence of a beautiful woman can lead men to throw caution to the wind.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 01, 2010 |
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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 ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 24, 2010 |
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