A trial began in Texas Tuesday in which a former couple alleged that a sperm bank illegally gave the man’s sperm to another woman who then had a baby with the sperm.
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Defective Sperm ‘Rescued’ in Fertility Treatment Study
Researchers from Cardiff University have successfully demonstrated that a previously identified ‘kick-starter’ protein can ‘rescue’ defective sperm and be used to create healthy embryos in animal models.
Kids with cancer get Futuristic Chance at Saving Fertility
To battle infertility sometimes caused by cancer treatment, some children’s hospitals are trying a futuristic approach: removing and freezing immature ovary and testes tissue, with hopes of being able to put it back when patients reach adulthood and want to start families.
Pelvic Pain May Be Common Among Reproductive-age Women, Study Finds
A high proportion of reproductive-age women may be experiencing pelvic pain that goes untreated, according to a study by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
Fresh Donor Eggs May Mean More Births Than Frozen
Infertile women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) may be less likely to give birth if they use frozen eggs from donors instead of fresh donor eggs, a new study finds.
China’s Retro In Vitro Rules Spark Debate
In China, as elsewhere, celebrity gossip and public policy tend not to intersect. The boundary dissolved late last month, however, when Xu Jinglei, a popular (and single) 41-year-old actress, explained in an interview that she had traveled to the United States in 2013 to freeze nine of her eggs. Although she could have had that procedure performed in China, she wouldn’t have been permitted, as long as she wasn’t married, to have those eggs implanted for a pregnancy.
IVF: Do Children Have the Right to Know if They’re The Result of a Stranger’s Sperm or Egg Donation?
Although she has two half-sisters from her dad’s previous marriage, there was nothing in Jess Pearce’s childhood to make her doubt her biological origins. She tanned, her father tanned; he was tall, so was she. Yet when she was 28, her mother dropped a bombshell.
Join The Crowd: Crowdfunding For Fertility Treatments
From presidential Missy Elliott tracksuits to crystal bacon sculptures, the crowdfunding world has seen its share of out-there efforts, but there’s plenty of real-life stuff going on, too.
Case in point: the growing popularity of using crowdfunding platforms to fund fertility treatments—from endometriosis surgery to IVF to egg freezing. (Currently, there are more than 130 such campaigns on GoFundMe alone, and more than 160 on YouCaring.)
How One Doctor Tried for 30 Years to Bring Clarity to the Abortion Conversation
Howard W. Jones Jr. was expecting controversy.But not this controversy.Jones was pioneering the developing science of in vitro fertilization in the United States. He and his wife, Georgeanna Jones, one of the nation’s first specialists in reproductive hormones, had retired from Johns Hopkins University in 1978. They moved to Norfolk, Va., the next year and were trying to start a clinic at Eastern Virginia Medical School to help couples struggling to conceive.
Title X: The Lynchpin Of Publicly Funded Family Planning In The United States
The Title X national family planning program was created 45 years ago with broad bipartisan support. Today, Congress has Title X—still the only federal grant program dedicated entirely to family planning and related preventive health care—in its sights for severe funding cuts or even elimination.