Not assisting reproduction

On the road

Health needs political commitment

Y files

Males will not become extinct

Fair play

Infertility Kit

Measures sperm motility

Troubled waters

Pollutants alter sexual characteristics of wild fish

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Cost-a DBCP? Sterility, cancer

Fresh drive to close gaps on health issues facing women and girls

Local capacities critical to making a difference must be strengthened

Malefactor

Agrochemicals affect sperms

Living on the edge

Local pollution linked to birth defects

Persistent poison

Review highlights need to ban organochlorines worldwide

Reproductive crisis? Sperm counts dropping rapidly worldwide

Mean sperm count dropped to 49 million/ml from from 104 million/ml in 46 years

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Indigenous hormone kits

Cheap and stable at high temperature

Experts call for holistic approach to reproductive healthcare

Urge governments to give women free healthcare to reduce maternal mortality

How India’s COVID lockdowns impacted menstrual health

Limited access to period products during India’s COVID lockdowns highlighted how far public health initiatives have to go when it comes to …

Cancer drug touted as fertility pill

Cancer drug letrozole is at the centre of a controversy over its being promoted as a fertility enhancer. The Union government has issued notices …

Married women in India have highest out-of-pocket expenditure for non-communicable diseases

Married women in both rural and urban India spend more on treating non-communicable diseases than other diseases, shows a study

Scientists unlock enzyme that reorganises paternal genome during fertilisation

Enzyme SPRK1 makes way for the first step — folding and packaging the sperm so that it fits in the egg

Has the free market economy added to India’s increasing PCOD burden?

About 9.13% of menstruating women in south India and Maharashtra suffer from PCOS, while 22.5 per cent have PCOD, according to UNICEF

New study could pave the way for novel contraceptive

Researchers found that in the absence of an enzyme critical for sperm formation in mouse, sperms failed to develop completely

Celibacy: its surprising evolutionary advantages – new research

Institutions can also be shaped by people’s reproductive and economic decisions, a study on celibacy in Gansu, China, shows

Female genital mutilation leads to over 40,000 excess deaths in Africa annually: Research

The practice still remains legal in five of the 28 countries where it is most practiced namely Mali, Malawi, Chad, Sierra Leone, and Liberia