Excerpts from The Incontinence Solution: Answers for Women of All Ages
October 10th 2010Incontinence is the uncontrollable loss of enough urine to cause social or sanitary difficulties. When we study the body and look at how we are able to control urination, we know that an infant does not have the proper connections between their brain and their bladder to be able to control the bladder.
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Urethro-raphy: A New Technique for Surgical Management of Stress Urinary Incontinence
October 10th 2010In 1996 we suggested an explanation of the mechanism of micturition and urinary continence. Urinary continence depends on an intact and strong internal sphincter and an acquired behavior of keeping a high alpha sympathetic tone at the internal sphincter.
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Autoimmunity Screening Clinically Proven, but Only After at Least Two Losses
August 25th 2010William Kutteh, MD, seems confounded by physicians who don’t believe in screening for and treating autoimmunity following recurrent pregnancy loss. “This is not a religious conversion event,” he said, concluding his remarks on the topic at the 2010 American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting. “There’s a lot of data.”
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Fertility Preservation: Use and Impact in Female Cancer Patients
August 25th 2010More reproductive-age women with a diagnosis of cancer are receiving fertility preservation counseling from their doctors-but how many of those patients then decide to undergo fertility preservation? And how does their decision impact them later in life?
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Assessment and Diagnosis of Female Sexual Dysfunction-Room for Improvement
August 25th 2010Research presented at the Annual American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Meeting in Denver shows that physicians currently lack the tools and information needed when working with patients with low sexual desire.
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For Women, Hormone Levels in the Brain May Affect Response to Emotions
August 25th 2010How do hormone levels affect women’s reactions to emotional stimuli? Researchers from the University of Vermont are attempting to answer this question by studying women’s brains using functional MRI (fMRI) during different stages of their menstrual cycles The results of their study were presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Annual Meeting.
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Discordances Between Follicle Stimulating Hormone and Anti-Müllerian hormone in Infertility
June 17th 2010Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) represent the two most frequently utilized laboratory tests in determining ovarian reserve (OR). This study determined the clinical significance of their concordance and discordance in female infertility patients.
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Over the past 12 years, it has become increasingly recognized that insulin resistance is central to the pathogenesis of the polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). The use of insulin-sensitizing agents, such as Metformin, a biguanide insulin-lowering agent in ovulation induction for IVF, has been widely studied.
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Setting the stage for novel public policy and fiscal impact studies regarding the impact of IVF
February 1st 2010Effective health policy requires a thorough understanding of intrinsic social, ethical, political and philosophical aspects of infertility and its treatment. The procedure with the highest success rate to address the clinical challenge of infertility for many patients is a relatively high-technology procedure, in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
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