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What Moves Men to Change? A Mixed‐Methods Study on Facilitators and Barriers of Lifestyle Changes in Men Seeking Fertility Care

open access: yesAndrology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An unhealthy lifestyle negatively affects male fertility. Despite this, men that are part of an infertile couple often fail to improve their lifestyle and evidence on influencing factors is limited. Objectives To identify facilitators and barriers involved in lifestyle changes of men seeking fertility care and in lifestyle ...
Wiep R. de Ligny   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“It’s a big deal, being given a person” – a study of the links between infertility and adoption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This study was commissioned and funded by Family Care and undertaken by Jo Ward and Joe Smeeton, both Principal Lecturers at Nottingham Trent University.
Smeeton, J, Ward, J
core  

Practical pH for the IVF Laboratory [PDF]

open access: hybrid, 2012
Jason E. Swain, Martin Wilding
openalex   +1 more source

The Ticking Clock: Differential Time‐Dependent Deterioration Between Washed and Thawed Sperm

open access: yesAndrology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cryopreservation is widely used in assisted reproductive technologies. While fresh sperm undergoes gradual time‐dependent deterioration, it remains unclear whether thawed sperm exhibits a more accelerated decline. Objectives To directly compare the rate of deterioration in sperm motility, vitality, and DNA fragmentation between ...
Adiel Kahana   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interactive Music Therapy on Stress Level Reduction in Women Submitted to IVF/ICSI. Prospective Randomized Study

open access: bronze, 2021
Eliamar Aparecida de Barros Fleury   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Pig Seminal Plasma Extracellular Vesicles Enhance Motility During Preservation of Epididymal Spermatozoa but Impair Capacitation and IVF Parameters

open access: yesAndrology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Extracellular vesicles (EVs) produced by accessory sex glands play a key role in sperm functionality, influencing motility, viability, acrosome integrity, metabolic activity, and capacitation. Most studies on the effects of EVs on spermatozoa have focused on ejaculated spermatozoa, which have already been exposed to their own native
Ana Moya‐Fernández   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The threshold of estradiol level for fresh embryo transfer differs between blastocyst and cleavage‐stage embryo

open access: yesActa Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
Our results suggested that the difference in pregnancy outcomes between fresh and frozen embryo transfer is related to the peak estradiol level and embryo transfer stage. The cutoff values for peak estradiol level for performing freeze‐all strategy to improve pregnancy outcomes were different for cleavage‐stage and blastocyst‐stage embryo transfer ...
Dingying Zhao   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negligent Disruption of Genetic Planning: Carving Out a New Tort Theory to Address Novel Questions of Liability in an Era of Reproductive Innovation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This Essay will address current concerns pertaining to ART-related negligence, and ultimately recommends the adoption of a new tort— negligent disruption of genetic planning (NDGP).
Tomlinson, Tracey
core   +1 more source

The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting

open access: yes
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
wiley   +1 more source

Cardiac dysfunction during adverse maternal outcomes in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

open access: yesActa Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
In pregnancies complicated by hypertensive disorders, peripartum adverse maternal outcomes are associated with diastolic cardiac dysfunction. Elevated E/e' ratio and left atrial volume index highlight the need for targeted cardiovascular monitoring and long‐term follow‐up.
Veronica Giorgione   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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