Fertility Research

Female Infertility

• Clinical studies on the mechanism for acupuncture stimulation of ovulation
• Auricular acupuncture in the treatment of female infertility
• Treatment of functional hypothalamic amenorrhea with hypnotherapy
• Millions of Americans Struggle to Conceive
• How to Prepare Your Mind & Body to Significantly Enhance your Fertility
• Role of acupuncture in the treatment of female infertility
• Acupuncture Treatment For Infertile Women Undergoing Intracytoplasmic Sperm injection
• Substitution of Acupuncture for HCG in Ovulation Induction
• Effects of Electro-Acupuncture on Nerve Growth Factor and Ovarian Morphology in Rats with Experimentally Induced Polycystic Ovaries
• Reduction of blood flow impedance in the uterine arteries of infertile women with electro acupuncture

Male Infertility

• Influence of acupuncture on idiopathic male infertility in assisted reproductive technology
• Direct effects of Chinese herbal medicine hachuekkito on sperm movement
• Effect of acupuncture on sperm parameters of males suffering from subfertility related to low sperm quality
• A substance isolated from Cornus officinalis enhances the motility of human sperm
• 87 cases of male infertility treated by bushen shengjing pill in clinical observation and evaluation on its curative effects
• Effects of guizhi fuling wan on male infertility with varicocele
• Effects of acupuncture and moxa treatment in patients with semen abnormalities
• Oriental Medicine and Male Sexual Disorders
• Quantitative evaluation of spermatozoa ultrastructure after acupuncture treatment for idiopathic male infertility
• Lap tops and Male fertility

Mind/Body Group Support

• Impact of Group psychological interventions on pregnancy rates in infertile women.
• The mind body program for infertility A new behavioral treatment approach for women with infertility
• The neural basis of the complex mental task of meditation

Mind/Body Psychology

• The prevalence and predictability of depression in infertile women.
• Distress and Conception in Infertile Women A Complementary Approach
• Psychological improvement in infertile women after behavioral treatment A replication
• Infertility the impact of stress the benefit of counseling
• Psychological distress and infertility forty years of research
• The psychological impact of infertility a comparison with patients with other medical conditions
• Psychosocial experiences in women facing fertility problems
• Subjective well being in infertile couples
• Psychosocial distress and infertility men and women respond differently
• Coping with male infertility Gender differences
• Psychosocial treatment and demographic predictors of the stress associated with infertility
• Behaviorally induced reproductive compromise in women and men

Articles

• Relax Fertility Improves When Stress Is Set Aside, Studies Find
• Stress speeds aging
• Stress - A New Fertility Factor?

Chinese Medicine : Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine

• An experimental study on inhibitory effect of Chinese medicine tai
• Experimental study of effect on tonifying kidney herbs in pituitary ovary adrenal gland of androgen sterilized rats
• A preliminary immunopharmacological study of an antiendometriotic herbal medicine keishi bukuryo gan
• Acupuncture: A Cure for Infertility?
• Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy
• Acupuncture Normalizes Dysfunction of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Ovarian Axis
• Relationship Between Blood Radioimmunoreactive Beta-Endorphin and Hand Skin Temperature During The Electro-Acupuncture Induction of Ovulation
• Acupuncture and IVF poor responder
• Acupuncture and good prognosis IVF patients
• Chinese Medicine Article from Alternative Medicine Mag

Nutrition & Exercise & Lifestyle

• Adjuvant L Arginie treatment for in vitro fertilization in poor responder patients
• Decreased oxygen consumption during exercise with elicitation of the relaxation response
• Nutritional ways to decrease male infertility
• Nutrition for fertility
• Maternal, Paternal Alcohol Use Affects Success of Assisted Reproduction
• Miscarriage rates increase with alcohol consumption
• Pesticides and infertility
• Coffee and infertility
• Smoking and infertility

Pregnancy

• The effect of relaxation therapy on preterm labor outcomes
• The efficacy of biobehavioral and compliance interventions in the adjunctive treatment of mild pregnancy
• Treatment of hypertension in pregnancy by relaxation and biofeedback
• Acupuncture May Be Helpful for Pelvic Girdle Pain
• Pelvic Pain in Pregnancy
• Breech Presentation
• Prebirth acupuncture
• Cervical ripening

Yoga

• Fertility Yoga
• Link to Alternative Medicine Magazine article on yoga

Massage

• Increasing Orgasm and Decreasing Dyspareunia by a Manual Physical Therapy Technique
• Treating Female Infertility and Improving IVF Pregnancy Rates With a Manual Physical Therapy Technique
• Alternative Medicine Magazine article