In an unusual approach to service, a Southlake church plans to offer free fertility treatment for a couple struggling to have a baby.

The eleven7 church is taking applications through Friday from such couples, and on Father's Day, June 15, will choose at random from among those seeking help.

The winning couple will get a medical evaluation and, depending on what's needed, will be directed to the Center for Assisted Reproduction in Bedford or the North DFW Urology practice in Grapevine, which have agreed to donate their services.

Full story: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/healthyliving/family/stories/053108dnmetslfertility.383488e.html


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A SKIN patch which predicts the best time a woman can become pregnant has been unveiled by scientists.

The rubberised patch, the size of a £1 coin, measures the tiny changes in body temperature which indicate when ovulation occurs.

It can be plugged into any computer using a USB port which can then be read using a sensor similar to a supermarket barcode scanner.

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Dr Paul Turek (http://www.theturekclinic.com/ ) has published a novel method to detect male infertility that will simplify the diagnosis of a condition that has eluded urologists so far.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 2, 2008 -- Almost as common as diabetes, male infertility affects 15% of reproductive age men in the US. Many cases of infertility are caused by blockages within the male sex organs that result in low sperm counts or no sperm counts. These blockages are often reversible and therefore important to diagnose as couples may be able to conceive naturally afterward.

To date, one such type of blockage, termed ejaculatory duct obstruction, has been difficult to diagnose as a cause of infertility. This week, Dr. Paul Turek, (http://www.theturekclinic.com/ ) a Professor Emeritus in Urology at UCSF, published a paper in The Journal of Urology that dramatically simplifies this diagnosis. "All prior tests for this diagnosis involve simply looking at the system and trying to guess how it works, but this new test actually 'pokes' at the system and watches how it responds," says Dr. Turek, a nationally recognized microsurgeon and male infertility specialist.

"We simply applied the same principles that have been used to assess urination issues in urology for the past 30 years, termed urodynamics, to the male sex organs, and call it 'vasodynamics.'"

For the study, 2 groups of men were compared: normal fertile men and infertile men suspected of having ejaculatory duct obstruction. In addition to taking ultrasound pictures of the reproductive tract system in both groups, which is the current standard diagnostic test, he did something else. By injecting harmless, colored dye into the system through a fine needle and measuring the pressure and flow characteristics of the dye as it progressed through the ejaculatory ducts, he found large differences between the fertile and infertile groups of men.

In fertile men, it took 33 cm of water pressure to cause flow in the ejaculatory ducts, whereas in the infertile men with suspected obstruction, it took 4 times that pressure or 116 cm water pressure. "With this hydraulic technique, we can actually measure the degree of blockage in the male sex organs, which has never been done before," says Dr. Turek of the new technique. Not only that, after surgery was performed to relieve the obstruction in the blocked men, the injection procedure was repeated and the water pressures fell into the range of the normal fertile men. This response also corresponded well with improvements in semen quality after the treatment.

"For several decades, the diagnosis of ejaculatory duct obstruction has involved a lot of guesswork. Vasodynamics now removes the guessing and replaces it with real information that can be used to reliably improve male fertility potential," says Dr. Turek (http://www.theturekclinic.com/ ).

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb983004.htm

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According to Women Naturally, the natural infertility treatments depend on the background or the cause. The cause could be due to adhesions, blocked tubes, vigorous D and C, a previous surgery or low sperm count of the male. Hence, a complete physical examination, particularly a vaginal examination, is essential to know the history. Women Naturally can devise a treatment plan to make conception easy.

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Posted on FertilityFriend.com by Babycakes2007:

Hi, Ladies! I'm visiting from the IVF board but wanted to post this here at well. This study is open to women ages 18-45 so I wanted to make sure as many people know about it as possible. These IVF studies fill up quickly!!

I was cruising the clinicaltrails.gov website and found an open IVF study at the University of California in San Francisco. I thought I'd pass it along to anyone in the Bay area who was interested. I'm in a research study in Florida and it's the best thing that happened to us. It's saving us $11,000!! I believe in "paying it forward" so here you go! Good luck!!

Here is the Inclusion Criteria for the study:

Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to 45 Years
Infertile patients
Undergoing IVF
Antral Follicle Count Less than 10
Prior history of less than 5 oocytes generated during an IVF cycle

Here is the link-
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00334243

MOST women in their 50s are winding down after half a lifetime of raising children.

The latest website, myfertileground.com is ready to serve its worldwide people who need information on the fertility and infertility issues.

Cumming, GA (USA), February, 12: My fertile ground has launched its newest website, myfertileground.com for those couples who want to seek information related to pregnancy, fertility and infertility issues. This exclusive website offers an opportunity to women to talk to other ladies who have experienced all these situations and gone through the same feelings.

Designed for both expecting and planning to conceive mothers, this website is dedicated to provide all the information to them; moreover, women can also grab all the fertility related information from its certified doctors.

“Our primary goals to provide all the information related to infertility issue to all those women, who want to search for the causes and signs of infertility, need assistance from the doctors, trying to conceive babies and want to share their experiences of motherhood with other women” explained Trish Kellogg, the spokesperson of the company.

“The other important goal of our website is to create a community, where every women can share every fertility problem and pregnancy related issues with the other females, who had experienced the same and have the knowledge about these issues” he stated further.

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THINGS have improved for workmen exposed to paint chemicals, but they are still more likely to have fertility problems, new research says.

Scientists from Manchester University have found that painters and decorators, who are exposed to glycol ethers, are more likely to have low sperm quality.

Glycol ethers are widely used in products, including the water-based paints used by many painters and decorators.

And, according to the research, men who work with these solvents have a 2.5-fold increased risk of having a low sperm count.

Full story: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1051724_painting_better_picture_of_infertility

A NEW medical test for women who want to check their biological clocks is making its debut in the US amid concerns about its usefulness and enormous interest in the consequences of delayed childbearing.

Called Plan Ahead, it's the first fertility test that purports to measure a woman's 'ovarian reserve' -- how many good eggs she has available for conception.

In a controversial move, the $373 test will be marketed to women who are contemplating when to have children and who want to recognise any potential biological limitations.

Full article: http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/05/28/11733_more-health.html


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