Does the likelihood of women conceiving really drop off a cliff after 30? Are those aged 35+ actually ‘geriatric’ mothers? As the average age of starting IVF passes 35, Helen Coffey talks to the experts about the realities of getting…
A new report highlights a troubling trend: while global adolescent fertility rates have significantly declined, sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing an increase in teen births. This region's share of global adolescent births surged from 12…
The common name for an oocyte is egg cell. A developing egg is called an oocyte. It is important to define Oocytes before explaining how their quality relates to Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and Assisted reproductive technologies …
A new report from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Aging Center, with colleagues from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, highlights a troubling trend: While global adolescent fertility rates have…
What Happened: On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took to Twitter to recall a November 2020 tweet by Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio). This comes in the wake of Vance’s recent nomination as former President Donald Trump’s vice…
Max Planck researchers have discovered that extremely long-lived proteins in the ovary may keep mammalian egg cells healthy and preserve fertility for a long time....
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