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up to 75. Awards. Ig Nobel Prize in Biology (1992) Cecil Byran Jacobson (October 2, 1936 – March 5, 2021 [1]) was an American former fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without informing them. Jacobson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. A graduate of Brown University, he became a researcher at George Washington ...
Hospitals, Clinics. Reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) is a surgical subspecialty of obstetrics and gynecology that trains physicians in reproductive medicine addressing hormonal functioning as it pertains to reproduction as well as the issue of infertility. While most REI specialists primarily focus on the treatment of ...
Male infertility refers to a sexually mature male's inability to impregnate a fertile female. [1] In humans, it accounts for 40–50% of infertility. [2][3][4][5] It affects approximately 7% of all men. [6] Male infertility is commonly due to deficiencies in the semen, and semen quality is used as a surrogate measure of male fecundity. [7]
Reproductive medicine is a branch of medicine concerning the male and female reproductive systems. It encompasses a variety of reproductive conditions, their prevention and assessment, as well as their subsequent treatment and prognosis. Reproductive medicine has allowed the development of artificial reproductive techniques (ARTs) which have ...
Both men and women are impacted by infertility, and there are a wide variety of causes behind this condition, according to Kecia Gaither, MD, MPH, FACOG, double board-certified in OB/GYN and ...
Andrology (from Ancient Greek: ἀνήρ, anēr, genitive ἀνδρός, andros 'man' and -λογία, -logia) is a name for the medical specialty that deals with male health, particularly relating to the problems of the male reproductive system and urological problems that are unique to men. It is the counterpart to gynecology, which deals ...
Donald Cline. Donald Lee Cline (born December 10, 1938) is a former American medical doctor of obstetrics and gynecology and convicted felon. [1][2] Between 1974 [clarification needed] and 1987, Cline sired over 90 children without disclosing himself as the sperm donor to his patients. [3]
Diagnosis has shown that fertility problems arise 35% of the time from males, 35% from female, 20% from combined issues, and 10% from unexplained causes. For the male, semen collection is a standard diagnostic test to ascertain problems with the semen quality , while females may undergo a number of tests including an ovulation analysis, x-ray ...