Emergency contraception known as the “morning-after pill” can be sold over-the-counter to minors, a federal appeals court in New York decided on Wednesday.
Month: June 2013
Argentina Requires HMOs to Fund Fertility Efforts
Argentina’s health care providers must now provide fertility treatments to anyone older than 18 who wants them, be they married or single, gay or straig
The 5 Stages of Infertility Grief
When you’re having trouble having a baby, there may be a lot to grieve. You grieve your ovaries, which work only some of the time. You grieve your partner’s sperm for being too few or poor swimmers. You grieve the entire process; all of the tests, the diagnoses, the waiting. Things many may never need to think about, you’ve obsessed over. Good grief.
Jury Finds for Catholic School Teacher Fired After Artificial Insemination Pregnancy
A Catholic archdiocese violated anti-discrimination laws when it fired a teacher who became pregnant via artificial insemination, a federal jury said Monday.
The Trouble With Talking About Fertility
In these progressive times in which women and men are delaying marriage and children, too, the topic of female fertility — and how it’s not going to be there forever, ladies! — seems to come up again and again.
More Doctors Broach Delicate Topic of Women’s Age and Fertility Rate
It’s a touchy topic: broaching the issue of having children. But OB-GYNs say they are increasingly making it as routine as asking about contraception during annual visits.
HPV Causes a Growing Number of Oral Cancers
Health officials say the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, a known cause of cervical cancer, has surpassed smoking and alcohol use to become the leading cause of head and neck cancers in the U.S., particularly among men.
Depomed Fails to Win U.S. Approval for Menopause Drug
Depomed Inc. (DEPO) failed to win U.S. approval for a drug to ease hot flashes associated with menopause that regulatory advisers had said was too risky to clear for sale.
A Choice Not as Easy as It Looked
When my husband’s friend Maggie asked him if he would donate his sperm to get her soon-to-be wife pregnant, he said he had to ask me first. It’s the kind of hypothetical question one might pose at a dinner party: “If your friends, a lesbian couple, ask your husband to donate sperm so they can have a child, would you agree?”
Frontiers of Fertility
The human reproductive system may be a prolific thing, but it’s also a very fragile thing, and there is a lot that can go wrong with it. In the U.S. alone, more than 7 million women have received treatment for infertility, spending more than an estimated $5 billion per year.