Infertility - Therapy
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Access to fertility treatment by gays, lesbians, and unmarried persons.

Sep 2009 This statement explores the implications of reproduction by single individuals, unmarried heterosexual couples, and gay and lesbian couples, and concludes that ethical arguments supporting denial of access to fertility services on the basis of ... Read more...

Fertility treatment when the prognosis is very poor or futile.

30 Aug 2009 The Ethics Committee recommends development of evidence-based policies that are patient centered for each IVF center. In most cases, the provision of futile therapies is not ethically justifiable. For those treatments with very poor success rates, ... Read more...

The politics of 'The Natural Family' in Israel: state policy and kinship ideologies.

16 Aug 2009 Israel is the only country in the world that provides nearly unlimited, universal state funding for fertility treatments. This exceptional policy has been widely understood as symbolising the state's pronatalism. In this paper I probe the policy and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Infertility - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Access to fertility treatment by gays, lesbians, and unmarried persons. Sep 2009
• Fertility treatment when the prognosis is very poor or futile. 30 Aug 2009
• The politics of 'The Natural Family' in Israel: state policy and kinship ideologies. 16 Aug 2009
• Ovulation triggering with GnRH agonist vs. hCG in the same egg donor population undergoing donor oocyte cycles with GnRH antagonist: a prospective randomized cross-over trial. 21 Jul 2009
• [Does sexuality still have a place for couples treated with assisted reproductive techniques?] Jul 2009
• Pluripotent stem cell-derived gametes: truth and (potential) consequences. 30 Jun 2009
• Global cultural and socioeconomic factors that influence access to assisted reproductive technologies. 29 Jun 2009
• Right to assisted reproductive technology: overcoming infertility in low-resource countries. 16 Jun 2009
• Patient experience of infertility management in primary care: an in-depth interview study. 15 Jun 2009
• Reproductive healthcare systems should include accessible infertility diagnosis and treatment: an important challenge for resource-poor countries. 14 Jun 2009
• The use of clinical ethics committees in infertility clinics. 30 May 2009
• [Combination of short-period sperm-oocyte coincubation and early rescue intracytoplasmic sperm injection after total failure of in vitro fertilization] 30 May 2009
• Current status of the approach to assisted reproduction. 30 May 2009
• Prediction models in reproductive medicine: a critical appraisal. 10 May 2009
• Effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors on in vitro fertilization outcome. 4 May 2009
• Human reproduction. 29 Apr 2009
• The psychological impact of infertility and its treatment. Medical interventions may exacerbate anxiety, depression, and stress. 29 Apr 2009
• Pituitary tumour-transforming gene (PTTG) and pituitary senescence. 27 Apr 2009
• A prospective randomized placebo-controlled study of the effect of acupuncture in infertile patients with severe oligoasthenozoospermia. 23 Apr 2009
• Reasons for dropout in infertility treatment. 23 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Infertility'

Definition: Inability to reproduce after a specified period of unprotected intercourse. Reproductive sterility is permanent infertility.

Descriptor UI: D007246

Alternative terms: Infertility; Sterility, Reproductive; Sterility; Reproductive Sterility;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C12.294.365; C13.351.500.365;

Online Note: use INFERTILITY to search STERILITY 1966-82

History Note: 83; was STERILITY 1963-82

Technical Notes: general or unspecified as male or female; prefer the specifics; PLANT INFERTILITY is available