Safer sex means less promiscuity, not more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently introduced new guidelines for the use of doxycycline, an antibiotic, as a post-exposure preventive treatment for bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs)…

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Montreal parents break the silence and stigma of baby loss

A group of parents in Montreal who have experienced the devastating loss of babies, whether before or after birth, are breaking the silence and stigma surrounding perinatal loss. They have…

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Fertility Education Initiative (FEI) launches video aimed at young people

Fertility Education Initiative (FEI), a special interest group of the British Fertility Society in partnership with the FSRH and other organisations, launches video about fertility for young people. The Fertility…

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Issues in Reproductive Health, UN.Org: A Human Rights Dimension

The Theme for World Health Day in 1998 was: “Pregnancy is Special; Let’s Make it Safe,” by Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla “When the World Health Assembly adopted this theme, it was…

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The need to improve fertility awareness

This article from June 16, 2017 is a collaboration from the Science Direct website based on a piece from the Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online. Open Access Under a Creative…

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Perinatal loss: Losing a baby – Patient Education Booklet

By: Rosa Caporicci, MA (C.Psy) NDG Therapy- Monkland Professional & Medical Centre 4260 Girouard Avenue Suite 250 - 11 Montreal QC H4A 3C9 INTRODUCTION You have suffered a terrible loss.…

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The forgotten men: rising rates of male infertility urgently require new approaches for its prevention, diagnosis and treatment

Vardit Ravitsky, Sarah Kimmins Biology of Reproduction, Volume 101, Issue 5, November 2019, Pages 872–874, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolre/ioz161 Published: 20 August 2019 Over the past 40 years, sperm counts worldwide have halved and…

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Cancer Claimed My Daughter After Egg Donation

  Jennifer Schneider, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician certified in Internal Medicine, Addiction Medicine and Pain Management. She is the author of 15 books and has published numerous articles in…

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Do Egg Donors Face Long-Term Risks?

When patients consider a medical procedure, they may be told “there are no known long-term effects.” But unless such effects have been systematically studied, that does not mean there are…

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