Infertility is a disease characterized by the failure to establish a clinical pregnancy after 12
months of regular and unprotected sexual intercourse. It is estimated to affect between 8 and …

Medical microrobotics is an emerging field that aims at non-invasive diagnosis and therapy
inside the human body through miniaturized sensors and actuators. Such microrobots can …

Both obesity and overweight are increasing worldwide and have detrimental influences on
several human body functions including the reproductive health. In particular, obese women …

Executive summary Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of
it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs …

Besides aging, a number of non-modifiable lifestyle-related factors, such as smoking,
elevated consumption of caffeine and alcohol, stress, agonist sports, chronic exposure to …

BACKGROUND Infertility is estimated to affect as many as 186 million people worldwide.
Although male infertility contributes to more than half of all cases of global childlessness …

Introduction: Recent evidence indicates that reproductive-age people have inadequate
fertility awareness (FA) concerning fertility, infertility risk factors, and consequences of …

Background Male factor is attributable in up to 50% of cases of infertility. In vitro studies
demonstrate that bacteria can negatively impact sperm function. The use of next‐generation …

About 10 years ago Greil published a review and critique of the literature on the socio‐
psychological impact of infertility. He found at the time that most scholars treated infertility as …

BACKGROUND Infertility affects 48.5 million couples worldwide with a prevalence estimated
at 3.5–16.7% in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC), and as high as 30–40% in Sub …