Repros Therapeutics Inc. (NasdaqCM:RPRX) announced that the Company has requested a Type B Meeting in order to review the Company’s Phase III protocols for Androxal® in the treatment of secondary hypogonadism. Androxal is an oral drug that normalizes both testosterone and sperm levels. Larry I…

Although the use of ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation has lead to 13 live births in women with lymphoma or solid tumors, this method of fertility preservation may be unsafe for patients with leukemia, according to a recent study published online in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology. The method involves removing and freezing ovarian tissue before the patient undergoes aggressive chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and then reimplanting the tissue once the cancer has been brought under control…

U.S., Chinese and Japanese scientists have discovered a way to prompt immature eggs in mice to develop into mature eggs, a method that could eventually be used to help infertile women, according to a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the New York Times reports. An accidental finding by other researchers — that removing a certain gene in mice stimulated all of the animals’ immature eggs to mature — provided the “impetus for the discovery” in the recent study, according to the Times…

Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidates Karen Handel and Rep. Nathan Deal (Ga.) have different opinions on whether they would support efforts to restrict the number of embryos created for in-vitro fertilization procedures, the AP/Macon Telegraph reports. Handel and Deal will face each other in an Aug. 10 runoff for the GOP nomination…

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology invites you to join the 10-year celebration of the European IVF Monitoring Group Reasons why you should attend this workshop: Opportunities for in-depth interviews and discussions with key players in Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) data monitoring in Europe and beyond You will hear different aspects of ART monitoring: An overview of ART data in Europe Use of ART data from Europe and the world - what have we learned? Possibilities and limitations of pooling ART infant outcome …

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology invites you to join the 10-year celebration of the European IVF Monitoring Group Reasons why you should attend this workshop: Opportunities for in-depth interviews and discussions with key players in Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) data monitoring in Europe and beyond You will hear different aspects of ART monitoring: An overview of ART data in Europe Use of ART data from Europe and the world - what have we learned? Possibilities and limitations of pooling ART infant outcome …

Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have for the first time activated mouse egg cells at the earliest stage of their development and brought them to maturity. In a related experiment, the researchers replicated the finding by also bringing human eggs to maturity in the laboratory. Current infertility treatment techniques stimulate immature eggs so they develop to the stage at which the eggs can be fertilized, but these techniques work only on eggs at a comparatively late stage of development…

Some fertility clinics are offering in vitro fertilization at lower costs to make the treatments more accessible to patients who could not otherwise afford them, Newsweek reports. A study by the European Society of Human Reproductive and Embryology found that the average cost of infertility treatment in the U.S. is about $13,775, compared with $4,012 in Japan and $3,109 in Belgium. Newsweek reports that IVF in the U.S. can cost from $10,000 to $20,000 per cycle, putting the treatments out of reach for many people who wish to conceive. Moreover, infertility facilities in the U.S…

Thirty-two years ago today, the world’s first baby was born after in vitro fertilisation. However, the work that led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978 had to be privately funded after the UK’s Medical Research Council decided in 1971 against providing the Cambridge physiologist Robert Edwards and the Oldham gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe with long-term financial support. Today, an intriguing paper published in Europe’s leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction [1] reveals for the first time the reasoning behind the MRC’s much-criticised decision…

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have applied an evolutionary ‘use it or lose it’ principle when studying past marriage patterns, to show that marriage can influence the evolution of age-patterns of fertility. Researchers Duncan Gillespie, Dr Virpi Lummaa and Dr Andrew Russell, from the University’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, studied Finnish church records from the 18th and 19th centuries, a time during which almost everyone married and divorce was forbidden, to trace the survival and marriage histories of 1,591 women…