By Davina Fankhauser More than a year ago, Dr. Paul Turek of The Turek Clinic, which specializes in men’s reproductive and sexual health, approached Fertility Within Reach, a nonprofit patient-advocacy resource, to see if we could partner on development of a program to help save the ...

   by Serena H. Chen, M.D. There is a big debate among physicians who specialize in treating infertile people all around the world today:   Should we treat people who are severely overweight?  Or should we require them to lose weight before they conceive?  I was ...

by Corey Whelan I was privileged to attend a Congressional briefing in Washington, D.C. yesterday, specific to toxic chemical exposure and reproductive health.  The briefing was coordinated through the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and the Guttmacher Institute, as well as ...

By Kimberly Inez McGuire The first whispers of summer are in the air, foretelling sunny days, sultry nights, and trips to the beach. For better or worse, it also means that many women crowd into salons and spas in a frenzy of pre-summer health and beauty rituals. And it’s no small task ...

by Heather Sarantis, Commonweal     In 2007, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics released a report, “A Poison Kiss: The Problem of Lead in Lipstick.” More than half of the 33 brand-name lipsticks tested contained detectable levels of lead. None of these lipsticks listed lead ...