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News Anchor Discusses Infertility in Hopes of Helping Others [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsAlisyn Camerota of "Fox and Friends" tried in vain for years to have a child. She tells the "Today" show that the experience made her determined to help other women struggling with the issue. The news anchor, now a mother of three, revealed that the only time she felt solace during her infertility battle were the times she spent with her support group. Research shows that women who take part in a support group have a 50 percent increased chance at conceiving. "Miracles do happen, and I'm living proof of that," Camerota said. "And maybe I can go and share my story with women who are at rock ...
Where Have All the Sperm Gone? 1 in 5 Men Are 'Subfertile'
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsWhen it comes to conceiving a child, a man's got to do what a man's got to do. But researchers say a growing number of men are struggling to do just that. Around the developed world, sperm counts have been dropping for decades, leaving at least one in five men ages 18 to 25 "subfertile," according to a study released last month by the European Science Foundation. While prenatal women have long been urged by doctors to improve their lifestyle to aid fertility, it appears that men haven't been holding up their end of the baby-making bargain. "The important impact of men's reproductive health ...
Short Index Fingers Mean Higher Prostate Cancer Risk, Study Finds
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(Dec. 1) -- Fellas, quick, take a look. Which is longer: your ring finger or your index finger? A longer index finger gives men a lower risk of prostate cancer, Reuters reports. Men with an index finger longer than their ring finger are one-third less likely to get the disease than men whose finger lengths are the opposite, according to researchers from Britain's Warwick University and the Institute of Cancer Research. "Relative finger length could be used as a simple test for prostate cancer risk, particularly in men aged under 60," Ros Eeles of the Institute of Cancer Research, who helped ...
Sperm Count Down: What's Killing Off America's Semen?
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 11) -- Young men of America: Your semen is dying off. That's the ongoing warning from researchers across the country, as science continues to pile new studies onto a growing heap of evidence counting against the reproductive potential of today's 20-somethings. Obesity is the latest health woe being blamed for low sperm counts among men of child-rearing age, according to research published today. So in a bid to keep American men healthy and virile, Surge Desk offers up a handy guide on what not to do if you want to -- someday -- successfully produce an heir. Body Fat: A Threat to ...
Childless? Heck No -- Child Free!
By Bonnie Erbé - Politics DailyI, like my colleague Donna Trussell, have chosen not to have children. But unlike Donna, I abhor the word, "childless," which she uses to describe herself. I am a deliriously happy child-free individual. The very term, childless, makes one sound something lesser than. The word makes it seem as if every woman over 40 without kids is infertile, forlorn and stares covetously at the local sperm bank. Or maybe she's the type who chases strollers inhabited by Gerber babies just for the chance to coo over a perfect child if only for a mere ten seconds. I remember as a thirty-something, newly ...
Dating Website Promises to Share Attractive Genes
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(June 23) -- They promise not to hog all the pretty genes. BeautifulPeople.com says it's creating a fertility introduction site for its members, and eventually -- gasp -- even the unattractive. The online forum is a place where people can discuss reproductive issues and move forward if they find a match, an effort to help infertile couples and single women. "Initially, we hesitated to widen the offering to non-beautiful people," Robert Hintze, a founder of the site, said in a statement. "But everyone -- including ugly people -- would like to bring good-looking children into the world, and we ...
From Conception to Decrepitude, WomanUP Is Here to Guide You
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyDuring a temporary lull in our intense and ongoing abortion discussion, Lizzie Skurnick peeks at an HBO documentary, Google Baby, and focuses for a moment on the opposite side of the fertility spectrum as it has evolved in the four decades since a chemist discovered Clomid, and since Louise Brown came out of a test tube in 1978. In the latest 21st Century iteration of overcoming challenges to babymaking, couples in New York, Tokyo or London can create and ship zygotes (fertilized ova, for those not up on the lingo) to be gestated in wombs of economically less well off women in India for a ...
Better Living (and Child Bearing) Through Chemistry: Pros and Cons
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyIn 1959, a free booklet for 10-year-olds printed by the Kotex Co. extolled, with cheery drawings, that the onset of menstrual periods signified a girl was on her way "to becoming a young lady." Typical of that era, not a word of explanation about conception or its prevention was offered. Today, a half-century later, every preteen watcher of "Glee" knows that girls emotionally unready to become mothers nevertheless peak reproductively in their teens and early 20s. A lot has happened to affect our baby-birthing status in those 50 years. The FDA approved medically prescribed oral contraceptives ...
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