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Study Suggests Filtering Out Useless Information To Enhance Memory

Contradicting the age-old conception that memory capacity is solely dependent on how much information you can cram into the brain, a recent research demonstrates that //filtering out useless information can help people increase their capacity to remember what is really important. The s...

Decline in Paternity Rates Following Treatment for Testicular Cancer

...gies were used by 22% of the couples who attempted conception after treatment. Dry ejaculation, treatment group,... was high, the ability to conceive and the time to conception reflected the intensity of treatment. The authors hope that these data may help inform patients abou...

Testicular Cancer Patients Have Improved Reproductive Outcomes After Treatment

...n 20 years. Furthermore, the chance of successful conception was found to be dependent on the type of treatment as anticipated. Men treatment with high doses of chemotherapy had a 48 % success while the success rate for those followed by surveillance alone after the cancerous testicle was removed was much high...

Birth Defects Caused By Acne Medication Can Be Minimized By Voluntary Pregnancy Prevention

...revention program (PPP) in 1988 to try and prevent conception in women taking the drug. It was soon placed by the SMART program (System to Manage Accutane Related Teratogenicity) that placed more emphasis on pregnancy testing and contraception. The FDA launched a new plan called the iPLEDGE with stricter requ...

A call to epileptic mothers to help reduce birth defects

...ultivitamin containing folic acid before and after conception 6. If you become pregnant, enroll in the North American Pregnancy Registry (888-233-2334 or www.aedpregnancyregistry.org) as soon as your pregnancy is confirmed. 7. Make sure that your anticonvulsant blood levels are monitored during pregnancy, and...

Infertility rate in UK men increasing at an alarming rate with numbers rising over 2.5 million

...hol should be encouraged not only for a successful conception but also because it has a detrimental impact on the nation’s population and progress....

Sperm washing helps couples

...Washed sperm have also been used in other assisted conception treatments, such as in vitro fertilization. In the United States, the CDC has recommended against insemination of women with semen from men infected with HIV. Current data from programs in Europe would suggest sperm washing to be a safe risk-...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

...ture studies may help explain whether this fall in conception rate following a caesarean is due to women who undergo the experience being less likely to try to conceive again, or whether they have more difficulty conceiving again, say the researchers. -(IANS) Medindia on Pregnancy: Pregnancy is the state of...

FDA gives “black box warning” against three asthma drus

...o. Though these results should not give misleading conception that blacks should not take the drug. These studies give a clear warning to the consumers about the drug. The pharmaceutical companies should give clear indications about the test results in a clearly understandable way by tabulating and by graphs. ...

Stem Cell Solution for Infertility

...sible to produce sperm and eggs to use in assisted conception treatments". It should now be possible to help couples with infertility. This research will allow embryonic stem cells to develop into the earliest stages of eggs and sperm. The stem cells can now be taken from embryos donated for research by couple...

Contraceptive pills may lead to deformities in babies

...eptive pills, and always have a chance of having a conception from missing out on a day’s pill. In those cases, women may continue taking the pills till they realise they are pregnant. Mice which were exposed to contraceptive ethinylestradiol, and similar oestrogenic chemical, bisphenol A, had the similar resu...

Folic Acid Supplementation During Pregnancy Could Help Prevent Spina Bifida

...that folic acid supplementation around the time of conception and early pregnancy was found to prevent up to 70 percent of spina bifida cases. However researchers say, it's unclear exactly how folic acid prevents the condition, but they feel it's likely to involve genes that regulate folate transport and metabo...

Dads Age Found To Affect The Childs Risk for Schizophrenia

...d a strong association between the fathers' age at conception and their children's risk of becoming schizophrenic. This remained true even after taking into account a range of other factors that could have had an impact. Researchers say nearly 16 percent of the schizophrenia cases could be attributed to being b...

High-Protein Diet Found To Reduce Fertility

...searchers looked at how the maternal diet prior to conception affects subsequent embryo implantation in the womb and development of the fetus. They found that a diet consisting of 25 percent protein disrupted normal gene imprinting patterns in mice embryos at an early stage in their development. Some mice were ...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...e monitor to detect their fertile times for either conception or contraceptive purposes. The days predicted as f...sequence of the menstrual cycle -- and basic daily conception probabilities. Researchers found systems using a mini-microscope, which rely on the user recognizin...

Painkillers Increase Risk of Miscarriage

...y high if the NSAIDs were taken around the time of conception or were used regularly for longer than a week. NSAIDs work by suppressing production of prostaglandins, which are fatty acids needed for successful implantation of an embryo in the womb. Researchers note these findings need further confirmation, but...

Changes in cabin pressure pose risks for moms-to-be

...rometric pressure that precede a storm could boost conception rates, no research has proved any such link. Air pressure changes during air travel, however, have concerned doctors enough to issue warnings against women //flying in late stages of pregnancy. According to the American College of Obstetricians and G...

Stem Cells Have Few Mutations

...ls for development. They form within a few days of conception and are the primordial cells for all the tissues in the body. Many scientists believe these cells, grow in the laboratory, can be coaxed to transform into liver, heart and other cells that can be used to renew ailing organs. Many people oppose rese...

Sex timing has no impact on risk of Birth defects

...children whose mothers reported an optimally-timed conception and those who reported a less optimally-timed conception....

Smoking Delays Pregnancy

...attempting to become pregnant may increase time to conception suggests that greater emphasis on this public health message is warranted. Current opinion on smoking cessation favours total abstinence rather than gradual reduction as the most effective means of quitting and the best means of harm reduction. Th...

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