Summer Water Activities Bring a Rise in Vaginitis… Prompt Showering and Changing Clothes Are Key to Prevention As midsummer begins, the number of people heading to the ocean and swimming pools surges significantly. However, this is also a period when women visit obstetrics and gynecology clinics complaining of symptoms such as vulvar itching, increased discharge,…

“Eggs That Vanish Without Even Attempting Fertilization”… Global Medicine Unravels the Secret of ‘Degenerated Oocytes’ There are cases where, despite the difficult process of egg retrieval for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), the eggs cannot even be attempted for fertilization and must be discarded. Medical teams call these ‘Degenerated Oocytes.’ These are eggs that have already…

Despite Costing Millions of Won, Evidence for Improved Birth Rates Is Limited International Societies Also Advise: “Should Not Be Recommended to All Patients” Among infertile couples preparing for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), PGT-A (Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy) has effectively become a ‘mandatory course.’ Clinics often explain that “transferring a genetically normal embryo increases pregnancy…

Scar Tissue Left Behind by Prostatitis or Epididymitis Blocks the Sperm’s Path The Formula ‘Azoospermia = Infertility’ Has Been Broken When people think of male infertility, most imagine low sperm count or poor motility. However, the urology community is recently paying attention to a completely different cause: obstructive azoospermia, a condition where sperm are produced…

Focusing on Molecular Diagnostics like PTEN and PIK3CA Opening an Era of “Same Diagnosis, Different Treatment” “Your endometrium is thick.” This is a common phrase heard in obstetric and gynecological clinics. While most cases are temporary changes related to the menstrual cycle, if abnormal uterine bleeding persists or the endometrium remains thick even after menopause,…

ESHRE Presentation: Changes in Sperm Gene ‘Switches’ Confirmed Male Infertility: Now Looking Beyond Sperm Count to the Quality of DNA Research findings indicate that the air we breathe every day can alter a man’s sperm DNA. With confirmation that air pollution—including fine dust, ozone, and automobile exhaust—can affect the ‘switches’ that regulate gene expression in…

Large-Scale ESHRE Study: “Lower Pregnancy Rates, Higher Miscarriage Risk, and Lower Birth Rates” Confirmation That “Even If the Egg Is Young, the Uterus and Body Still Age” Donor eggs have long been considered the ‘last hope’ of infertility treatment. Because they use the eggs of young women in their 20s or 30s rather than one’s…

European ART Surpasses 1.15 Million Cases… Rising Trends in Single Embryo and Frozen Embryo Transfers Fresh Embryos May Still Be More Advantageous for Women with Diminished Ovarian Reserve The global trend in In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment is changing rapidly. In the past, ‘Fresh Embryo Transfer’—where embryos are transferred to the uterus immediately after collection—was…

Large-scale ESHRE Analysis: Single Embryo Transfers Increase While Birth Rates Remain Stable or Improve, and Multiple Pregnancies Decrease Significantly “One High-Quality Embryo Is More Important”… Domestic Infertility Treatment Also Shifting in the Same Direction The long-standing common knowledge regarding In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is changing. The perception that “transferring multiple embryos increases pregnancy success” is…

Successful Generation of Human Spermatocytes in Artificial Mouse Testes… Full Sperm Production Remains the Challenge Research aimed at reproducing the ‘spermatogenesis process’—a long-standing hurdle in male infertility treatment—inside a laboratory has reached a significant turning point. Scientists have succeeded in taking human blood cells, reverting them into stem cells, and growing them up to the…

Gaming Over Sex, Smartphones Over Dating… A New Landscape Created by Declining Sexual Activity, Spread of Singlehood, and Digital Immersion “Dating? I want to, of course. But by the time I play a round of games and watch some YouTube, the day is already over.” This is the post-work routine of Kim (31), an office…

An Era of Delayed Childbirth, Obesity, and Environmental Changes; Experts Call for National Management of Male Reproductive Health Back in the 1970s and 80s, it was common to see fathers who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day and drank alcohol after work raising three or four children. By today’s standards, such lifestyles would lead…