New studies conducted by the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Soroka University Medical Center in Israel purport to show a link between the stress level of an man and his sperm quality. The findings showed a 47% chance that sperm motility may be affected by even just two months of extreme stress across over 11,000 sperm samples...

No parent likes to think about their child developing a possibly life-threatening illness that will require surgery or invasive treatments to cure. Even fewer parents like to think about the scars those illness and other injuries can leave, often affecting a person and their fertility throughout their life...

Couples trying to conceive often look for any help they can get, including methods outside the realm of hard medicine. This may be overstating things somewhat, but altering your diet to provide your body with more of the chemicals it needs to conceive is hardly pseudoscience...

Services have been cropping up that promise an alternative way to birth control, either through cutting out traditional doctor visits or using new non-hormonal technology. The dangers of letting either type of service dictate your birth control are the lack of reliable research behind new methods or potentially using the wrong birth control for you...

In the United States, obesity is both a growing epidemic and a stigmatized condition. About two out of three adults are considered overweight or obese; and of those adults, over 60 percent of women fall into that category. In addition to the health issues that overweight women share with their male counterparts, they also have difficulty conceiving...

A hot topic in today’s society is female fertility, and while this is obviously very important, sometimes male fertility can be overlooked. Considering that one-third of infertility cases are due to male reproductive issues, it’s imperative to start including men in this conversation in order to move forward...