Infertility News

• Some Young People Who Undergo HCT Retain Ability to Conceive Young people who undergo hematopoietic-stem-cell transplantation may be able to conceive even after being treated with highly gonadotoxic agents, a large European retrospective study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, October 20, 2021
• ASRM 2021 COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Menstrual Cycles A survey of more than 12,000 women of reproductive age found that 1 in 3 had experienced changes to their menstrual cycles and symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2021
• Patient Loses Prostate After Biopsy Slide Switched; More Biopsy slides mistakenly switched; fertility specialist uses own sperm to impregnate patients; parents say daughter's stroke wasn't identified.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, October 19, 2021
• COVID-19 Deaths Eclipse 700,000 in US as Delta Variant Rages It's a milestone that by all accounts didn't have to happen this soon.
  Associated Press, October 04, 2021
• ESMO 2021 Sharp Increase in Cancer Incidence and Mortality From 2020-2040 Cancer incidence and mortality is expected to rise sharply in Europe between 2020 and 2040, albeit with wide variations between cancers, according to a new analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, September 20, 2021
• AUA 2021 AUA Meeting Features Current Controversies, Latest on COVID The conference switched to all virtual 3 weeks before launching. Packed panels of experts will weigh in on major evolving questions in urology. Six sets of updated guidelines dot the program.
  Medscape Medical News, September 07, 2021
• Why the CDC Doesn't Recommend Screening Straight Men for STDs Women and MSM (men who have sex with men) benefit most from screening efforts, experts say.
  WebMD Health News, August 26, 2021
• Shouldn't Docs Who Spread False COVID Info Lose Their Licenses? The State Federation of Medical Boards warns that physicians who spread false COVID information can be suspended or lose their licenses. But it doesn't seem to be happening.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2021
• Federal Judge Rules Against Several Indiana Abortion Laws A federal judge ruled Tuesday that several of Indiana’s laws restricting abortion are unconstitutional.
  Associated Press, August 12, 2021
• Researcher Who Faked Co-Authors Earns Two More Retractions As reported last October following earlier news reports, Shunjie Chua, fabricated the names and affiliations of co-authors in at least four articles, two of which were being retracted.
  Retraction Watch, August 06, 2021
• Nearly Half of Female Surgeons Surveyed Lost a Pregnancy "Pregnant surgeons should not be operating more than 12 hours a week when they are in the third trimester," one author said. "That is a modifiable risk factor."
  Medscape Medical News, July 30, 2021
• Doctor Marks 'Right' Instead of 'Left' Testicle, Then Operates Physician erred in marking the testicle for an operation; mega judgment after fertility procedure goes awry; relative of patient with COVID demands justice.
  Medscape Medical News, July 28, 2021
• 'I Did Nothing Wrong:' MDs Used Own Sperm for Fertility Patients Several physicians secretly used their own sperm for their fertility patients. No one knew until years later, when the unaware offspring sent DNA samples to tracing sites. Lawsuits ensued.
  Medscape Medical News, July 14, 2021
• Artificial-Cycle Frozen-Embryo Transfer for IVF May Raise Risk of Vascular Problems in Pregnancy Artificial priming of the uterus with hormone therapy before transfer of a frozen embryo may increase the risk for pre-eclampsia and pregnancy-induced hypertension, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, July 08, 2021
• Reassuring Rates of ADHD After Assisted Reproductive Techniques Children conceived with ART do not appear to be more likely to have ADHD or poor school performance, compared with children conceived spontaneously, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2021
• California to Pay Victims of Forced, Coerced Sterilizations The payments will make California at least the third state — following Virginia and North Carolina — to compensate victims of the so-called eugenics movement that peaked in the 1930s.
  Associated Press, July 08, 2021
• France Allows IVF for Single Women, Lesbians France's parliament adopted legislation on Tuesday that will allow single women and lesbians access to in vitro fertilization, unwinding some of Western Europe's strictest rules governing medically assisted pregnancies.
  Reuters Health Information, June 29, 2021
• Women Not Told About Need for Contraception After IVF Births After an IVF birth, many women have misperceptions about their fertility and have unexpected, spontaneous pregnancies, suggesting an urgent need to address the contraceptive needs in these women.
  Medscape Medical News, June 29, 2021
• No Increase in Breast Cancer Risk With Fertility Treatments The results are "reassuring," say investigators of the largest meta-analysis to date, which involved 1.8 million women who were followed for an average of 27 years.
  Medscape Medical News, June 29, 2021
• In Black Patients, Acne Scarring Might Not Mean What You Think "Scarring is not usually what they're talking about, although they may have some of that as well."
  Medscape Medical News, June 28, 2021