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After Tubal Ligation – Tubal Reversal for Fallopian Tubes or IVF?

Are you in the situation where your life has changed following your tubal ligation?  Now, you want a baby and here you sit with blocked fallopian tubes.  What are you going to do?

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California’S Vasectomy Reversal Resurgence

If you had a vasectomy performed twenty years ago, your doctor no doubt related to you that your decision would be final. He probably told you to think long and hard about your decision because once snipped, there’s no turning back, right? Well, at the time he was right, but thanks to modern technology and innovations in the field of microsurgery, vasectomies can now be reversed. This opportunity makes it possible for men who have long regretted their fertility-ending decision to once again have the power to procreate.

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During National Infertility Week, starting today October 20th, a lot of attention in the media will be given to the treatment of In Vitro Fertilitzation (IVF). This is a technologically advanced treatment for most causes of infertility. But what about those couples who want to have a baby but can’t because of a previous tubal ligation? There are hundreds of thousands of infertile couples in this group in the US. Is IVF the best treatment for them? Let’s compare the two treatments to see which might be the best one for women whose tubes have been tied.

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There’s an interesting article just published on the mydna.com website. A Norwegian company has signed a licensing agreement with the University of Massachusetts Medical School to fund research that could bring about a male pill. Most of the research uses testosterone to supress the sperm production. This time they are taking a different approach.

Instead of shutting down sperm production, the new approach targets a protein in sperm cells that controls their ability to swim. The Norwegian plan targets the C protein in sperm. By suppressing that protein, the pill turns off the tiny tails that allow sperm to swim to the female egg for fertilization.

Researchers hit on the idea by watching pond scum. Algae are propelled through water by flagella. Human sperm use similar tails for movement. The C protein controls the motion of the flagella. Cut off the protein, researchers surmise, and the sperm won’t be able to swim. The protein exists nowhere else in the human body so shutting it down shouldn’t cause side effects, researchers say.

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During National Infertility Week, starting today October 20th, a lot of attention in the media will be given to the treatment of In Vitro Fertilitzation (IVF). This is a technologically advanced treatment for most causes of infertility. But what about those couples who want to have a baby but can’t because of a previous tubal ligation? There are hundreds of thousands of infertile couples in this group in the US. Is IVF the best treatment for them? Let’s compare the two treatments to see which might be the best one for women whose tubes have been tied.

Read the rest of this entry »

There’s an interesting article just published on the mydna.com website. A Norwegian company has signed a licensing agreement with the University of Massachusetts Medical School to fund research that could bring about a male pill. Most of the research uses testosterone to supress the sperm production. This time they are taking a different approach.

Instead of shutting down sperm production, the new approach targets a protein in sperm cells that controls their ability to swim. The Norwegian plan targets the C protein in sperm. By suppressing that protein, the pill turns off the tiny tails that allow sperm to swim to the female egg for fertilization.

Researchers hit on the idea by watching pond scum. Algae are propelled through water by flagella. Human sperm use similar tails for movement. The C protein controls the motion of the flagella. Cut off the protein, researchers surmise, and the sperm won’t be able to swim. The protein exists nowhere else in the human body so shutting it down shouldn’t cause side effects, researchers say.

Read the rest of this entry »