Undescended testicles: is surgery necessary? - Q:My 9 year old son has an undescended testicle. My doctor is urging me to allow him to have surgery to correct this. I have been told that there is a...

Semen quality affects chances of conception - Male fertility may be more complex than previously imagined. The combination of motility and semen volume traditional measurements of semen quality ar...

Ivf babies are twice as likely to have a defect - Children conceived by IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) or sperm injection have twice the risk of being born with a major birth defect.

Sperm treatments cause birth defects - Abnormalities in sperm which prevent men from making their wives pregnant may also be causing defects in the fetus, researchers are suggesting. ...

Ivf treatment could cause retardation - Children conceived by ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection), the IVF treatment of choice when the man is very infertile, may suffer some developmen...

Infertility: Soy reduces sperm quality - Soy food and isoflavones, a hormone derived from soy products, can make men infertile, a new study has discovered.

Scientists back whistleblower on gm foods scare - A group of scientists from 13 countries has supported calls for a moratorium on genetically modified (GM) foods. The scientists have read unpublished...

Upates - New ivf method carries higher risks - Children born after assisted reproduction, where the technique known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection is used, are twice as likely to have a major...