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1st appeared 30 August 1999 Center for Health and Community Receives $11 Million for Infertility Treatment Research The UCSF Center for Health and Community recently received a grant of more than $11 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health to study infertility and the use of new technologies to become pregnant. The grant, one of largest awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study infertility, will fund four UCSF studies over a five-year period. The researchers will study how couples decide whether to try assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) or to continue treatment if the initial attempt fails, the psychological effects on the woman and the couple, the economic and social costs of the new technologies, and the medical outcomes for babies who are born as a result of infertility treatments. "The issue of in vitro fertilization is very complex," said Nancy Adler, UCSF professor of medical psychology in the departments of psychiatry and pediatrics, director of the UCSF Center for Health and Community, and project director of the grant. "A comprehensive analysis is needed that looks at ARTs from various perspectives and includes enough people that the research can address the different kinds of experiences that people have." The UCSF Center for Health and Community is a multidisciplinary center that assesses the challenges of the changing health care delivery environment and identifies policies and interventions to maximize the beneficial impact of the changing health care delivery system. The Center for Health and Community is comprised of programs and individual faculty from all UCSF Schools who have been at the cutting edge of health services and policy-related research for many years, and includes basic social and behavioral scientists in epidemiology, health policy, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, bioethics, economics, and clinical research. Links: Source: Lordelyn P. del Rosario, News Services |
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