Q: You talk about Maasai women and infertility, what about the men?
The finding is important because previous worries about laptops causing infertility have focused on the heat generated by the machines.
Other health risks associated with tobacco include heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases; bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory diseases as well as infertility.
Whether it's the reproductive technology or some by-product of infertility causing the methylation defects is still unknown, but Sapienza plans to tease out the answer in future studies.
What infertility treatment options are you able to offer?
The study can also bring the new methods of screening and curing infertility.
Some studies have suggested a link between cellphone use and cancer, lower bone density and infertility in men. But other studies show no effect at all.
Opponents argue that it is wrong to meddle with the building blocks of life and warn that the advances taking place to tackle infertility risk distorting and damaging relations between family members.
More advanced infertility treatment options are available in Arusha, about a one-day journey away.
The new drugs approved included innovative medicines for heart attacks, high cholesterol, cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, infertility and epilepsy.
The study nevertheless shows that an energy sensor such as insulin can have a direct effect on reproduction and may give new insights into how infertility may be treated in the future, Lawson says.
For example, male infertility can be caused by impaired sperm production, function or delivery.
Even so, a diagnosis of infertility can cause considerable stress and sadness, and patients often report high levels of depression and anxiety.
What are the key causes of male infertility?
He didn't speculate as to which is the more likely culprit, but said that many things, such as gene mutations, could cause defects in methylation that might result in infertility.
While sperm count is an issue in 89 percent of male infertility cases, other causes of infertility, such as sperm speed, motility and shape, cannot be measured by the test.
Acupuncture has long been tried against all sorts of ailments, from aches and pains to infertility.
After suffering years of infertility we finally conceived, only to later discover that it was an ectopic pregnancy and I would need emergency surgery.
Tuberculosis and unsafe delivery practices can also cause infertility.
It is used to diagnose and treat the cryptorchidism before the adolescence, the male sterility caused by low pituitrin, the female anovulatory infertility caused by the low function of the pituitary gonadotrophin, the in vitro fertilization, and the female luteal phase defect.
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