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    Freezing Can Preserve Semen from Cancer Patients  Jan 3, 2009
    A number of different techniques were employed including intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in vitro fertilization, cryo-embryo transfer and intrauterine insemination. In all, 25 children were born; 19 single infants and 3 sets of twins. (MEDLINEplus)

    Cycling with High FSH and Poor Ovar...  Dec 21, 2008
    A woman should always consult with a fertility specialist familiar with her case, but if there are no other contributing factors to her infertility (such as blocked tubes) it may be possible for a woman with DOR to conceive naturally or with intra-uterine insemination (IUI) or in-vitro fertilization (IVF) using her own eggs. Most doctors recommend IVF to maximize the chances of success. (Suite101.com)

    High FSH Level and Diminished Ovari...  Dec 21, 2008
    Assisted Reproductive Technology, such as intra-uterine insemination (IUI) or in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is usually recommended in order to maximize the chances of becoming pregnant. The copyright of the article High FSH Level and Diminished Ovarian Reserve in is owned by. (Suite101.com)

    Mother Nature Vs. Infertility Treatment  Nov 15, 2008
    "This is usually paired with intrauterine insemination (IUI)," Shaffran says. IUI is a fairly low-tech procedure in which sperm is injected directly into the uterus to meet - and hopefully fertilize -- a waiting egg. (CBS News)

    Antidepressant Affects Male Fertility  Nov 11, 2008
    For example, increased DNA fragmentation of sperm increases the risk of failure of intrauterine insemination. "Abnormal sperm DNA integrity even affects pregnancy outcomes of the most advanced assisted reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF)," she added. (Newsmax)

    Love or hate Jon and Kate (plus 8)?  Nov 1, 2008
    For us, we endured three rounds of IUI and ended up with NO baby. And many, many couples end up childless after any fertility treatment, many more so than those with multiples. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Sunshine could help fix male infertility  Oct 25, 2008
    Among the group of males tested, 40 pregnancies had been achieved, with more than half of those pregnancies occurring naturally or with minimal intervention such as intrauterine insemination and with only three miscarriages (6%) compared to an average 22% miscarriage rate among women using fertility treatment. Dr. Clark says the findings could have major implications for the costs of fertility treatment as one in six Australian couples experiences infertility - a blood screening test costs about... (News-Medical.net)

    Ray of sunshine for infertile males  Oct 22, 2008
    Among the group of males tested, 40 pregnancies had been achieved, with more than half of those pregnancies occurring naturally or with minimal intervention such as intrauterine insemination. Dr Clark says there were only three miscarriages or a 6 per cent miscarriage rate among those pregnancies. (ABC Online)

    And now for the good news: I'm pregnant  Aug 25, 2008
    They endured two IUI fertility courses followed by eight IVF attempts and investigated adoption. "It was the cliched emotional roller-coaster. Every time you do an IVF cycle there's optimism or pessimism. Then if it doesn't work there's depression. I also had one miscarriage after six weeks," Knight said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)

    Top Calif. court rules doctors can't deny treatment to gays  Aug 19, 2008
    Benitez contended that Dr. Christine Brody, an obstetrician at the North Coast Women's Care Medical Group, told her that her religious views prevented her from performing an intrauterine insemination on a lesbian. Another physician at the clinic, Dr. Douglas Fenton, told Benitez that the staff was uncomfortable helping her conceive a child and advised her to find a doctor outside the medical group, Benitez said. (Boston Globe)

    Calif. Supreme Court: Religion Not a Shield for Discrimination  Aug 19, 2008
    Christine Brody and Douglas Fenton, who claimed their Christian faith prevented them from providing intrauterine insemination in some circumstances. The doctors, who worked at the North Coast Women's Care Medical Group in Vista, Calif. (Law.com)

    State Supreme Court says doctors must treat gays and lesbians  Aug 19, 2008
    Guadalupe Benitez sued North Coast Women's care in Vista and two of its doctors, saying they told her in 2000 that because she was a lesbian their Christian beliefs prohibited them from performing intrauterine insemination for her. The doctors later claimed they would have refused the treatment for any unmarried couple. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Common Fertility Treatments Little Use  Aug 12, 2008
    These women often take Sanofi Aventis' Clomid or undergo a type of artificial insemination called unstimulated intrauterine insemination as first-line treatments. Sanofi had no immediate comment. (MEDLINEplus)

    Common Infertility Treatments Are Unlikely To Improve Fertility  Aug 11, 2008
    The women were randomised into three groups - one group of women were encouraged to try naturally for a pregnancy and had no medical interventions; one took oral clomifene citrate (CC) which is believed to correct subtle ovulatory dysfunction; and the other had unstimulated intra-uterine insemination (IUI) of sperm ... The researchers found that women who had no interventions had a live birth rate of 17%, the group taking oral CC had a birth rate of 14%, and the group having unstimulated IUI had... (Science Daily)

    What's the best way to get pregnant?  Aug 11, 2008
    A report in the BMJ has suggested that fertility clinics should send patients home empty-handed after a study by Siladitya Bhattacharya, a professor of reproductive medicine at the University of Aberdeen, found that the fertility pill clomifene and intrauterine insemination (IUI) were no more effective than recommendations on when couples should have sex. A frequent cause of infertility is not making love enough in the middle of the woman's cycle. (guardian.co.uk)

    Fertility study scorns frontline treatments  Aug 10, 2008
    The study, reported in the British Medical Journal, showed that many women who were given the fertility pill clomifene, or who had intrauterine insemination (IUI), which involves injecting sperm directly into the womb, had no more babies than those who were sent home with nothing but advice on when best to have sex ... Allan Pacey, an andrologist at Sheffield University and secretary of the British Fertility Society, said: "Intrauterine insemination has been offered to couples with unexplained... (guardian.co.uk)

    Men Adopt Twice As Often As Women  Aug 9, 2008
    Drug Treatment And Intrauterine Insemination May Not Work When Used Separately. . (CBS News)

    New Research Questions Use Of Common Fertility Treatmets  Aug 9, 2008
    These results challenge current practice, as endorsed by a national guideline in the UK," conclude the authors. Tarek El-Toukhy and Yacoub Khalaf (Assisted Conception Unit at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust) write in an accompanying editorial that: "As a direct result of the lack of evidence, many couples with unexplained infertility endure (and even request) expensive, potentially hazardous, and often unnecessary treatments. " There is a need for high quality clinical trials as well... (Medical News Today)

    Study questions fertility choices  Aug 9, 2008
    The study, covering five hospitals in Scotland, followed 580 couples who were randomly assigned either to receive no treatment beyond advice about the timing of intercourse, a course of Clomid, or the intrauterine insemination (IUI) that finally helped the Jances, but without the ovary-stimulating injection. Allan Templeton, the research leader - and architect of Britain's current fertility treatment policy which requires couples to try low-tech methods before they can access publicly funded IVF... (Sydney Morning Herald)

    Fertility treatments 'no benefit'  Aug 8, 2008
    The options listed by the National Institute of Clinical and Health Excellence (NICE) include up to six cycles of unstimulated intrauterine insemination - where sperm is inserted directly into the woman's womb - and use of clomid (clomifene citrate), a drug which stimulates the ovaries ... Dr Allan Pacey, senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield and secretary of the British Fertility Society, said: "It is very important that we have a strong evidence base to support the treatments that are... (BBC News)

    Study: 2 popular fertility treatments don't work  Aug 8, 2008
    In the last group, doctors performed an intrauterine insemination in 193 women, a process where sperm are injected into the womb using a syringe. In Britain, clomifene citrate costs about $390 per course and the sperm insemination costs about $975 per cycle. (USA Today -- News)

    Study: Infertility Treatments No Help  Aug 8, 2008
    Drug Treatment and Intrauterine Insemination May Not Work When Used Separately By WebMD Health News Reviewed by ... Researchers compared drug treatment to induce ovulation with no treatment; they also compared intrauterine insemination -- in which the sperm are placed inside the uterus to facilitate fertilization -- with no treatment ... In the intrauterine insemination group, women monitored their hormone levels and when they were ideal, the sperm were placed inside the uterus to facilitate... (WebMD)

    Common treatment for infertility ineffective: study  Aug 8, 2008
    The same study of 580 women in Scotland, all of whom had experienced unexplained infertility for more than two years, also showed that so-called unstimulated intra-uterine insemination (IUI) -- artificial insemination unaccompanied by drugs to trigger egg production -- did not work any better ... To be statistically significant, they said, the difference between IUI birth and those achieved naturally would have to be much higher than the six percent reported in the trial. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)

    State fines health insurer $1 million for denying claims  Jul 22, 2008
    Regulators say the fine follows an investigation by the Insurance Department into a complaint from an Ithaca woman who challenged the denial of a 154 claim for an intrauterine insemination treatment. Most of the improper denials involved claims of approximately 150. (Auburn Citizen, NY)

    His biological clock is ticking, too  Jul 13, 2008
    The scientists suggest that when either the man or the woman is over age 35, infertility treatment options, including in vitro fertilization (so-called test tube fertilization), might be more successful than intrauterine insemination (so-called turkey baster insemination. . (Los Angeles Times)

    Study: Fertility Problems Affect Men Older Than 40  Jul 8, 2008
    "Our data gives evidence for the first time, for a strong paternal effect on IUI (intrauterine insemination) outcome either on pregnancy rates but also on miscarriage rates," said Stephanie Belloc and her team from the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in France. The team looked at samples from more than 21,000 so-called IUI in which the sperm was washed in centrifuge to separate them from seminal fluid and then inserted directly into the uterus. (Fox News)

    Dad's Age Plays Role in Fertility  Jul 8, 2008
    Researcher Stephanie Belloc of the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in Paris and colleagues analyzed the outcomes of more than 21,000 intrauterine inseminations (IUIs). An IUI is a type of fertility treatment in which the man's sperm is first separated (or "washed") from the seminal fluid and then inserted into the woman's uterus ... "Our research proves for the first time that there is a strong paternal age-related effect on IUI outcomes, and this information should be considered by both... (WebMD)

    Men past 40 can face fertility problems  Jul 7, 2008
    "Our data give evidence for the first time, for a strong paternal effect on IUI (intrauterine insemination) outcome either on pregnancy rates but also on miscarriage rates," Belloc and her team from the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in France said. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Health)

    Male biological clock 'ticks too'  Jul 7, 2008
    All were given intrauterine inseminations (IUI), also known as artificial insemination, where sperm is inserted into the womb when the woman is ovulating. It is given to couples where the woman has no fertility problems and is less invasive than IVF.. (BBC News -- Health)

    Study: conceiving more difficult for men over 40  Jul 7, 2008
    "Our data give evidence for the first time, for a strong paternal effect on IUI (intrauterine insemination) outcome either on pregnancy rates but also on miscarriage rates," Belloc and her team from the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in France said. Other researchers have indicated that an overall decline in sperm counts and quality as a man ages is a factor but until now there has been little clinical proof that simply being an older man has such a big effect on fertility, the... (Xinhuanet, China)

    Couples with fertility problems where the man is over 35 have increased difficulty in conceiving  Jul 7, 2008
    Dr. Belloc and colleagues followed up 21239 intrauterine inseminations (IUIs). In IUI the sperm is 'washed', or spun in a centrifuge, in order to separate them from the seminal fluid, and then inserted directly into the uterus ... The sperm of each partner was examined at the time of the IUI for a number of characteristics, including sperm count, motility and morphology. (EurekAlert!)

    Scientists warn that biological clock affects male fertility  Jul 7, 2008
    Those who fail to conceive after mild forms of fertility treatment, such as intrauterine insemination (IUI), in which sperm is washed and transferred directly into the uterus, should move quickly to more advanced treatments, such as ICSI, where the best quality sperm are picked out and injected directly into the woman's egg. The study looked at pregnancies and miscarriages recorded for couples having IUI treatment at the clinic between 2002 and 2006. (guardian.co.uk)

    Religious, gay rights clash in Calif. case  Jun 20, 2008
    Brody replied that, should Benitez require intrauterine insemination, she could not perform it for religious reasons. The two dispute exactly what Brody said would violate her beliefs. (Boston Globe)

    Court weighs if doctors can not treat lesbian  May 30, 2008
    Benitez sued North Coast Women's Care, a fertility clinic in Vista (San Diego County), and two of its doctors who refused in 2000 to provide intrauterine insemination. She said Christine Brody, her treating physician, and Douglas Fenton, the clinic's medical director, told her their Christian beliefs prohibited them from furnishing the infertility treatment for a lesbian couple. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Calif. Justices Appear to Favor Lesbian in Dispute Over Artificial Insemination  May 29, 2008
    Case with unusually high number of amicus briefs involves doctors who claimed religious beliefs kept them from providing intrauterine insemination ... Justice Joyce Kennard all but announced a win for the gay community when she asked Los Angeles lawyer Jennifer Pizer, who represented a San Diego County lesbian who had been denied intrauterine insemination, whether she would be satisfied with a narrowly tailored ruling in her client's favor, or whether she was hoping for a ruling that touched on... (Law.com)

    State Supreme Court may give gays a medical victory  May 29, 2008
    Several justices suggested during Wednesday's hearing that they would rule that religion was not a legal justification for two Christian physicians in San Diego County who declined to perform an intrauterine insemination for Lupita Benitez, a lesbian who sought to become pregnant in 1999. Justice Carol A. Corrigan, who voted against same-sex marriage, appeared strongly in favor of Benitez's right to medical treatment. (Los Angeles Times)

    REGION: State's high court to hear local case of civil rights clash  May 28, 2008
    The attorney said the doctors, who are Christians, did not perform the intrauterine insemination because Benitez is not married ---- not because of her sexual orientation. And this was not a medical emergency, but rather an elective procedure, Tyler said. (North County Times)

    Analysis: Acupuncture may help conception  Feb 9, 2008
    A pregnant Dr. Ann Trevino had trouble getting pregnant with intrauterine insemination before trying acupuncture ... She had three unsuccessful pregnancy attempts with intrauterine insemination before trying acupuncture with IVF at a fertility clinic in San Antonio where she used to live. (CNN -- Health)

    Insemination May Go Better With Acupuncture  Feb 9, 2008
    She had three unsuccessful pregnancy attempts with intrauterine insemination before trying acupuncture with IVF at a fertility clinic in San Antonio where she used to live. "I had been reading about acupuncture, probably like every other patient on the Internet. I was just willing to do anything possible to improve our chances," she said. (Click2Houston, TX)

    Acupuncture may boost pregnancy, study finds  Feb 9, 2008
    Trevino, a 37-year-old family physician, had three unsuccessful pregnancy attempts with intrauterine insemination before trying acupuncture with in vitro fertilization at a fertility clinic in San Antonio, where she used to live ... She had three unsuccessful pregnancy attempts with intrauterine insemination before trying acupuncture with IVF at a fertility clinic in San Antonio where she used to live. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    AIIMS pioneers in establishing first IVF Research Centre  Feb 9, 2008
    Although there is no permanent and secured treatment of infertility, yet in some cases simple methods as ovulation inducing drugs or intrauterine insemination improves the chances of conception. While in some major cases reproductive surgery as microsurgery of tubes and invasive surgery of the uterus may benefit some. (Newstrack India)

    Acupuncture may hike odds of conceiving  Feb 8, 2008
    She had three unsuccessful pregnancy attempts with intrauterine insemination before trying acupuncture with IVF at a fertility clinic in San Antonio where she used to live. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Health)

    Pushing age limits - along with their strollers Hoboken moms are waiting longer and longer to have kids  Jan 29, 2008
    The IVF center also helps with other fertility methods, including intrauterine insemination, which sperm cells are inserted into the woman's body. Miller said she has worked with many Hudson County residents, as well as people from around the world. (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)

    Injections to boost fertility may be waste of time, experts warn  Oct 19, 2007
    As a first step, they were given clomiphene pills before artificial insemination (IUI), which injects sperm directly into the womb. If they failed to conceive, they were given daily hormone injections and further artificial insemination. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Indian woman without sexual hormones delivers baby  Sep 24, 2007
    She was subjected to hormonal checks and put to Periodical Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin Injection and Intra-Uterine Insemination (IUI), Sunitha said. She conceived during the second cycle of IUI and was monitored closely during her pregnancy by a series of ultrasound scans and hormone assays. (Xinhuanet, China)

    Record-Breaking Quintuplets Born  Aug 7, 2007
    Rachelle went on hormone treatments to stimulate egg production and also underwent intrauterine insemination. While multiple births are common for women who undergo fertility treatments, quintuplets are rare. (CBS News)

    Thousands denied IVF treatment  Aug 6, 2007
    It said the provision of less invasive infertility treatments such as IUI, donor insemination and ovulation induction, as well as counselling, remained "patchy and extremely vulnerable to 'postcode prescribing'". Dari Taylor, chair of the parliamentary group and MP for Stockton South, said: "These figures have an extraordinarily distressing effect on couples. The Nice guidelines say if couples have been seeking treatment for three years they should be on a list and moving into treatment.... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)

    Sperm banking before treatment preserves fertility in young male cancer patients  Jul 23, 2007
    Those who used their frozen sperm sample after overcoming their cancer had a fertility success rate of 36 percent using intrauterine insemination (IUI injecting the sperm into the uterus) and 50 percent using in vitro fertilization (IVF fertilizing the egg in a lab and then transferring the embryo to the uterus) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI injecting the sperm directly into the egg). A vital component in the efficacy of the study was the collaborative approach taken by the... (EurekAlert!)

    Readers share theirfertility paths  Jun 19, 2007
    We tried two unsuccessful rounds of IUI, and then addressed the IVF situation. The US was just horribly priced, so I inquired into Australia. (MSNBC -- Health)

    Readers debate best age for baby-making  Jun 11, 2007
    I had twins in January thanks to the wonderful miracle of IUI. I wanted to wait longer, but I had a gut feeling something was going on ... After three failed IUIs and two failed IVFs we decided to adopt. (MSNBC -- Health)

    Gays, lesbians seeking parenthood increasingly turn to infertility clinics  May 7, 2007
    Options range from simple intrauterine insemination for women, which may cost a few hundred dollars, to use of paid egg donors and gestational surrogates for gay men, who may have to pay $150,000 in medical and legal services to have a child. Statistics are hard to come by, in part because of the controversy surrounding same-sex marriage and the hostility in some parts of the country to the idea of gay men and lesbians raising families. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    The price of life  Apr 13, 2007
    Siaron's daughter Catrin, seven, was conceived by IUI (intrauterine insemination) using donor sperm: Catrin's father, Peter Rees, 34, is severely disabled with progressive multiple sclerosis. After Siaron gave birth, she realised that, although she wanted a second child very much, to have one would be too difficult. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Conception Kit gets FDA approval  Mar 26, 2007
    o she went through seven IUI and two drug cycles before she got pregnant then she lost the baby ... IUI is an invasive procedure done by a doctor ... Early indications are the Conception Kit is equal, if not more effective than IVF or IUI. Already 51 pregnancies have been reported as a result of using the kit. (Ionia Sentinel-Standard, MI)

    Gays Becoming Parents  Mar 25, 2007
    There are three types of artificial insemination; direct intrauterine insemination (IUI or prewashed), intra-cervical insemination (ICI or standard) and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). 2 ICI insemination can be performed at home, using a medical needle-less syringe. (Suite101.com)

    Area sees increase in twin births: Experts believe fertility drugs, age are behind recent rise in multiples  Jan 30, 2007
    but with the treatment we did, intrauterine insemination, they told us there was only a 13 percent chance it would be successful the first time, and of that percent, only five to 10 percent it would be twins, Davis said. When we found out it worked the first time and it was twins, we knew we were very lucky and blessed. (Texarkana Gazette, TX)

    Single women becoming moms by choice  Jan 18, 2007
    Lily was conceived through a process called intrauterine insemination, with sperm from an anonymous donor. According to Carolyn Kaplan, the physician who serves as director of In Vitro Fertilization, Georgia Reproductive Specialists, an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 women each year have inseminations in metro Atlanta. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)


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