The gender pay gap is significant for reproductive endocrinology and infertility subspecialists in the United States, with women making substantially less money compared with men.
In vitro fertilization was shown to have a small but significant association with the development of childhood cancers.
Pregnancy and offspring outcomes were reassuring in couples where men with spondyloarthritis (SpA) were exposed to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors.
Women who become pregnant from infertility treatment may be at an increased risk for postpartum hemorrhage, admission to the intensive care unit, or puerperal sepsis as well as death.
Physiological intracytoplasmic sperm injection did not significantly improve live birth rates compared with standard intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
Children conceived by assisted reproductive technology (ART) do not appear to have a significantly increased cancer risk.
For women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), endometrial scratching by pipelle biopsy between day 3 of the cycle preceding the embryo-transfer cycle and day 3 of the embryo-transfer cycle, does not result in a higher rate of live birth.
Internationally, infertility is ranked as the fifth most serious disability among women.
A longer duration of infertility was associated with lower sperm concentrations and higher rates of azoospermia in men with primary infertility.
A high BMI is associated with reduced follicle-stimulating hormone receptor expression in human chorionic gonadotropins, reduced expression of estradiol synthesis-related genes, and reduced production of estradiol.
