BACKGROUND It is the responsibility of health systems to provide quality health care and to protect consumers against impoverishing health costs. In the case of infertility in developing countries, quality care is often lacking and treatment costs are usually covered by patients. Additional financial hardship may be caused by various social consequences. The economic implications of infertility...

Due to the high costs of infertility treatment, many infertile Americans find themselves without the means to procreate.1 Compounding this issue, access to infertility treatment varies greatly from state-to-state largely due to the differences in state insurance coverage mandates.2 The access to infertility treatment, such as artificial reproductive technology (“ART”), often correlates to facto...

background: nowadays artificially assisted reproductive techniques are used to cure infertility. these methods are highly expensive, time-consuming and have low success rates which are usually around 20-40%. one of the best alternate methods for infertility treatment that can be considered is adoption that often decreases the treatment costs and the psychological impact within an infertile coup...

background: experiencing infertility is a crisis in couples' life, affecting all aspects of their life. in addition to stresses of infertility problems, going through treatment is also associated with physical, psychological, social and economic stress. therefore, identifying social factors especially social support related to stress of infertility treatments seems necessary. this study investi...

Purpose The Cap-ScoreTMwas developed to assess the capacitation status of men, thereby enabling personalized management of unexplained infertility by choosing timed intrauterine insemination (IUI), versus immediate in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in individuals with a low Cap-ScoreTM. The objective of this study was to estimate the differences in outcomes...

This Article considers whether infertile taxpayers can deduct their fertility treatment costs as medical expenses under Internal Revenue Code section 213 and whether they should be able to deduct them. Internal Revenue Code section 213 defines medical expenses as "amounts paid-for the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or for the purpose of affecting any structure...

In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individuals suffering from a disability related to their reproductive capacity are protected from discrimination under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Advocates for individuals and couples suffering from infertility are seeking to use this decision as leverage in their long-standing attempts to alter how infertility is viewed and add...

context correct timing of diagnostic laparoscopy for unexplained infertility management remains as a debate for clinicians. a cost-effective strategy of diagnostic laparoscopy utilization for unexplained infertile patients is much needed. evidence acquisition detailed evaluation of the articles extracted from a “pubmed” and “cochrane database” search using “unexplained infertility and diagnosti...