The patch provides patients with more even doses of medication, said Dr. Vincent Calabrese at Virginia Commonwealth University, who supervised a recent study of nine patients.
He says an unpublished study that he supervised attributed 90 percent of infertility cases in the valley to polycystic ovary syndrome and related diseases, 5 percent to premature ovarian failure and another 5 percent to other stressors in life.
Meanwhile, a recent National Institutes of Health study showed that a program of supervised exercise may be at least as effective as interventions with devices in alleviating walking pain for many people suffering from PAD.