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Month: June 2013
How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?
Deep anxiety about the ability to have children later in life plagues many women. But the decline in fertility over the course of a woman’s 30s has been oversold. Here’s what the statistics really tell us—and what they don’t.
New Study Tracks Emotional Health of ‘Surrogate Kids’
Over the past decade the number of births involving surrogacy with donor eggs and sperm has surged. What, experts wondered, does this mean for the mental and emotional health of the growing number of kids who may or may not know the truth about their distinctive origins?
Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy: Nutritional Advice
By Victoria Maizes, M.D.
Joyously, you’re considering having a baby. What could be more natural? Women become pregnant every day, often unintentionally. Still, many women struggle to conceive and the modern world has a host …
AMA Urges Insurers to Cover Fertility Preservation
If insurers cover costs for reconstruction after a cancer patient has a mastectomy and costs for storing blood in case a cancer patient needs a subsequent transfusion, why shouldn’t they cover expenses for fertility preservation when a young cancer patient requests it?
California Bill Poised to Lift Restrictions on Egg Donation
California is set to pass a bill that would allow payments over and above ‘direct expenses’ to be made to women who donate eggs for research.
Male Infertility: Some Thoughts for Inquiring Men Who Want to “Do It Yourself”
by William D. Petok, Ph.D.
While the state of fertility and infertility knowledge has grown enormously since the first IVF baby was born, one would be hard pressed to understand the role of men in the equation if you read only …
Fertility Preservation in Women With Breast Cancer: Challenges and Opportunities
Given the lack of long-term data, we are often left with more questions than answers about determining the appropriate management of these patients. Caring for women with estrogen receptor–positive tumors and BRCA mutations can add additional complexity. Women with hormone receptor–positive tumors face years of estrogen deprivation and/or endocrine therapy that is contraindicated during pregnancy. BRCA mutation carriers may also consider risk-reducing surgeries to decrease the risk of second breast cancers or to prevent ovarian cancers, thus further limiting fertility potential.
IVF: First Baby Born Using ‘Safer’ Method
Baby Heath – who is now nearly eight weeks old was conceived using a natural hormone to kick-start his mother’s ovaries.
Shortage of Sperm Donors
About 80 per cent of donated sperm used by singles, lesbian couples and other childless women in Canberra is flown in from overseas, mostly the United States.