Males Over 35 Less Likely to Have Children
	Even in these modern days, when the lifespan of humans surpasses an all time record, women over 40 are generally believed too old to have babies, yet somehow there is no mention of the limit age men become less fertile at. If 40 looked like a rather young age to stop having children, a new study now shows that men older than 35 have significantly less chances of becoming fathers. The study involved 12,200 couples with fertility problems. ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2008, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lubricants Paralyze Sperm Cells
	Do you want a kid? If your answer to this is in the positive, it’s time you forgot about lubricants, at least about some of the commercially available ones. As signaled by a new research presented at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annual meeting, in New Orleans, some lubricants appear to paralyze sperm cells. "Most commercial lubricants are toxic to sperm, and couples who want fertility should th ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Plastics Impact Boobs and Fertility from the Womb
	Many contaminants have a more subtle effect than simply killing cells. Some mimic hormones, like sex hormones. A team from Yale School of Medicine has presented at the 2008 Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) Annual Scientific Meeting held on March 26-29 in San Diego, California, a study detailing how synthetic estrogen mimickers like those encountered in many plastics impact the developing fetus, provoking fertility issues, vagina ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Premature Births Mean Less Fertile Individuals
	Premature babies are considered those born before 37 weeks. Even if there are a lot of studies showing the short term effect on the health of the babies of the premature births, a new research investigating about 1.2 million births in Norway pointed the effect of a premature birth in the health of the adults. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that premature babies have an increased ris ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obesity Causes Sterility in Women
	Being overweight is more than a risk for your health: it can completely end up your lineage. Being too skinny translates too low sex drive and sterility, in both women and men, but the opposite too seems to strike on fertility level: a new Dutch research published in the Human Reproduction journal shows that an overweight woman's chances of getting pregnant gradually decrease with her weight gain. The research at the Academic Medi ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Smoking Mothers Have Sterile Daughters!
	A mother 'pumping' nicotine into her body and having a baby growing inside her womb affects the baby's brain development, causing long-term behavioral and learning impairment and these children have usually lower weights. Smoking mothers increase the risk for the baby to be born mentally retarded, with physical anomalies and even behavioral changes. Future mothers must be even careful not to inhale "second hand smoke&qu ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Which is the Best Time for Having a Child?
	Career, hard economics, social life and family life make women reach menopause finding they are childless. And what's next: frozen eggs and all the SF crap? Here comes a team of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, made of Professor Ralph Keeney and doctoral student Dinah Vernik, with a sophisticated logical decision model approach on the best time for a woman to conceive a first child. "This decision is too complex to logically ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 05:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's Most Common Sexually Transmitted Disease Induces Severe Male Sterility
	I’m sure you’re quite well informed on many aspects related to HIV, syphilis or gonorrhea, but the STD you're more likely to experience is Chlamydia, the "Silent Epidemic" (called so because in women it may not induce any symptoms and will linger for months or years before being diagnosed). In men, Chlamydia can sometimes induce abnormal discharge from the penis and swelling of the testicles, but it is silent in most subject ... [read more >>]
	25 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want Better Sperm? Then Ejaculate Daily!
	Sex works on the principle of positive feed back: more sex just improves our ‘performance’. A team from Sydney University says that men with damaged sperm should have sex daily to increase the chances of getting their partner pregnant. In many cases, couples with fertility issues abstain from sex for several days to boost sperm numbers before trying to conceive. But the new research claims that this could mean lower-quality s ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Launches Your Antibodies Against the Sperm?
	Contaminants, stress and other factors brought by modern life are blamed for the increasing rates of infertility, but few have heard about immune infertility, a quite common cause of couple sterility. Immune infertility is amongst the 80 autoimmune disorders discovered so far and the best known are Multiple Sclerosis and Type 1 Diabetes. This reproductive disease installs in both men and women, causing their immune systems to attack sp ... [read more >>]
	13 September 2007, 14:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Mathematical Formula for Women's Fertility
	We are a unique gene complex, so, if we function so differently from one individual to another, why not use a personalized IVF (in vitro fertilization)? Especially as 90 % of the women receive the wrong dose when undergoing IVF. An international team has developed an easy-to-use mathematical formula that permits a personalized approach to ovarian stimulation therapy for women involved in IVF programs. When clinicians employed the algor ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2007, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Stress Induces Sterility in Both Women and Men
	It is well known that stress can indeed suppress reproduction in humans. Researches showed that stress-reducing therapy made women regain their fertility. Scientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, found cognitive behavior therapy alone was enough to restore periods in some women. High levels of stress hormones in women can provoke irregular ovulation and also fallopian tube spasm in women and low sperm count in men. The diffi ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2007, 11:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Dictates Male Fertility?
	It is easy to blame it on the woman, but in 40 % of the couples, the man is the sterile part. Now, a team at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research found an immune factor that regulates human semen, inducing fertility or sterility in a man. The macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) appears to be crucial in maturing sperm, to make it ready for reproduction. This discovery could lead to a new test for male fertility. The tea ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want to Eat Penis? Go to China...
	You may have heard that the tiger is menaced by the demand on the Chinese black market of tiger penis bone. Tiger penis bone for the same people encompasses the tiger’s power, including the sexual one. Of course, it’s like chewing chicken or pork bones, but the poachers are menacing the wild tigers because of such stupid beliefs. But the Chinese imagination does not stop here, and each penis it the world for them looks like a panac ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2007, 16:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New At-Home Test Tells A Man's Fertility in 80 Minutes!
	Male vanity hardly copes with the fact that in 50 % of the cases, the couple's infertility is the man’s fault. It is even trickier to get him to see a doctor for a fertility evaluation. The new at-home screening test, called Fertell, has solved this. This is the first at-home device to test the concentration of motile sperm, and women's hormone levels as an indicator of egg quality. The two-in-one test signals that both me ... [read more >>]
	12 June 2007, 15:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Two Sets of Sextuplets in One Day!
	Naturally, the occurrence of twins amongst humans is rare and somehow linked to genetics. For example, in a Nigerian tribe, the twins' occurrence is very common. Triplets are quite an exception amongst humans. But the hormonal bouleversement induced by former use of contraceptive pills or fertility treatments have induced ultimately rabbit fertility in human females. Two sets of sextuplets have been born in di ... [read more >>]
	12 June 2007, 10:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No, Older Women Do not Generate New Eggs
	The common concept on female fertility states that at birth females have all their eggs inside their undeveloped (yet) ovaries and these eggs are released one by one (sometimes more than one) at each ovulation. At menopause, the ovaries are deserted by any egg. But in 2004 a Harvard team led by reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Jonathan Tilly started a vivid debate by challenging this concept. Their research, published in 2004 in Na ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women's Fertility, Determined by their Childhood
	It seems that in the case of women, fertility is not just an innate quality but also one adjusted by life conditions in early life. This conclusion was reached by a team at University College London which analyzed hormone levels in women who migrated to the UK from Bangladesh at various life stages. The researchers found that women brought up in UK, where they had enjoyed better sanitation and health care, and faced lower risks of ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2007, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Sex Booming Parasite
	We know that parasites are the bad guys that trigger diseases. Some are lethal, like malaria, others just decrease fitness (like gut worms). Those attacking the sexual apparatus affect fertility. Wolbachia is a bacterium encountered in over 20 % of all insects and known to decrease female fertility. But a new research found that parasites can experience an extremely rapid evolution that turns them helpful, due to an opposite ... [read more >>]
	27 April 2007, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Gene of Male Infertility Finally Found
	It's easy to blame it on the woman, but in 15 % of cases, the guilt can be attributed to the stud. Now Cornell study could bring more hope for these couples, as a research team detected a gene mutation that induces male infertility in mice. This is the first dominant mutation found to specifically trigger infertility in a mammal and the researchers can now investigate similar mutations in infertile men. "If you ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2007, 04:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Exclusively for The Ladies
	Science, technology and the revolution brought by PCs surely took their toll on our life's most intimate aspect, the sex life. From vibrators, spermicide sponges and the massively used pill, to electronic stimulators and the online porn industry, you name it; love making is definitely not what it used to be decades ago. As this is a software review and not a column about sex, I'll cut the story short, I wouldn't want to ... [read more >>]
	29 March 2007, 11:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Japanese Have the Lowest Sex Drive in the World Because of the Web...
	It seems there is a huge gap between Japan's sex toys, porn, hentai and sexy TV shows and the way real sex occurs there. Japan's population is estimated at around 127,463,611 and is correlated with one of the highest life expectancy rates in the world, of 81.25 years (in fact, today’s oldest living person is a Japanese woman). But the Japanese population is rapidly aging (about 20 % is over 65) and the effect of ... [read more >>]
	16 March 2007, 12:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ultrasounds to Predict Fertility
	Women resorting to IVF (in vitro fertilization) take drugs to boost egg maturation in their ovaries. These ovules are extracted by doctors and fertilized in the laboratory; but some women’s ovaries cannot generate any egg even under medication, and in such cases the treatment fails. As IVF treatment means $10,000 to $15,000, many potential patients make tests before, to verify their chances. These checks are made with drugs t ... [read more >>]
	15 March 2007, 08:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Stem Cells to Produce Testes for Sterile Men
	Statistics show that couple infertility is due equally to men as to women. Male sterility is triggered by impairment in the multiplication and development of the germ cells (that generate sperm cells) or of their supporting tissues. A new investigation pointed out that bone marrow stem cells could be employed in treating male infertility. The stem cells could replace nonfunctioning or impaired cells. The research, made by a team le ... [read more >>]
	02 March 2007, 08:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hot Baths or Jacuzzi Induce Sterility in Males
	About 7 % of American couples are sterile. 30 % of the cases are attributed to the man, 30 % to the woman and the rest to both partners or to unknown reasons. Drugs or surgery can treat 85-90 % of infertility cases; less than 3 % require in vitro fertilization (IVF), a costly procedure. "Couples really prefer having kids at home and not with technology", said professor Dr. Paul J. Turek, lead investigator who is director of the D ... [read more >>]
	02 March 2007, 07:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia