One of the signature public health achievements in the United States in recent years has been the decline in both the teen pregnancy and the teen birth rates. Between 1990 and 2004, the teen pregnancy rate declined 38% [1]; in a similar trend, the teen birth rate declined 31% between 1991 and 2006 [2]. This change was remarkably widespread; significant declines were documented in all states and...

BACKGROUND Monitoring assisted reproductive technology (ART) is essential to evaluate the performance of fertility treatment and its impact on birth rates. In Europe, there are two kinds of ART registers: voluntary and mandatory. The validity of register data is very important with respect to the quality of register-based observational studies. The aim of this paper is to determine the degree o...

more children ever.3 A study of births to ever-married women found that the proportion of births that were unplanned decreased from 38% in 1969–1973 to 32% in 1978–1982, then increased again to 35% in 1984–1988.4 Another study comparing the 1982 and 1988 NSFG survey results found that there had been no change in the unintended pregnancy rate between 1982 and 1987, but that the unintended birth ...

background: we often see patients with a thin endometrium in art cycles, in spite of standard and adjuvant treatments. improving endometrial growth in patients with a thin endometrium is very difficult. without adequate endometrial thickness these patients, likely, would not have reached embryo transfer. objective: we planned this study to investigate the efficacy of intrauterine granulocyte co...

Background Psychological interventions such as counseling for infertile patients seem to increase pregnancy rate. Objective The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine if counseling improves pregnancy rate among infertile patients. Thus, randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of counseling on pregnancy rate in infertile patients undergoing ART were pooled...