While all couples can struggle to balance careers and kids, family planning for women in the military can be more complicated because they’re frequently deployed during their most fertile years.
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Fertility Consult in Cancer Care: Now a Routine Referral
Fertility care for young patients newly diagnosed with cancer should be incorporated into routine clinical practice, experts say.
What Should Be the Fate of a Spare Frozen Embryo?
There are more than 600,000 embryos frozen solid in clinics and labs across the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. These excess embryos are a necessary byproduct of in vitro fertilization. For people who believe that life begins at conception, these embryos raise complex questions of logistics, priorities, and ethical consistency.
Here’s How Men Deal With Erectile Dysfunction
The Superdrug Online Doctor looked at an erectile dysfunction forum to gain insight into who is actually suffering from ED and how it affects them by analyzing the posts and comments. They looked at posts and comments about ED from 3,962 users. So there’s a really well-rounded look about how men talk about erectile dysfunction to other men that are struggling.
What Cancer & Infertility Have Taught Me About Womanhood
At 21, I was now faced with the fact that I would probably never experience a pregnancy. One week prior to this, I had been a busy, working, young college graduate. Today, I was a woman whose dreams were getting further out of reach by the minute. My oncologist had sent me to a fertility doctor to see if we could freeze my eggs for future use. The doctor completed an unpleasant vaginal ultrasound, determined that my eggs were safe to harvest, and told me I had to decide what I was going to do with my eggs within the few days that remained before I started chemo.
India Scales Back ‘Rent-a-Womb’ Services
Long before she married, at 14, Sushila Sunar had stopped going to school. She never learned to read. After her two children were born, she broke rocks at a construction site for a few dollars a day, the only work she could find. Then a woman approached Sunar with a job that paid nearly $6,000, a sum so large she and her husband felt she could not refuse. She became a surrogate mother, delivering a light-skinned baby for a foreign couple she never met.
Gene Causes Rare Form of Infertility in Women
Chinese researchers have identified genetic mutations that cause infertility in a small number of women. Mutations in the TUBB8 gene appear to cause defects that prevent the women’s eggs from maturing properly. Scientists are not certain how many women are affected by infertility caused by persistent immature eggs, but it is thought to be rare – it has been reported to be as low as 0.1 percent of women who seek fertility treatment in China.
How the World’s Governments Have Regulated Human Genome Editing
Three members of McGill University’s Centre of Genomics and Policy—Rosario Isasi, Erika Kleiderman, and Centre Director Bartha Maria Knoppers—have published a global survey of restrictions on modifying the human genome. The article, which appears in Science and is free to access, comes in the midst of a simmering debate about CRISPR gene editing, a powerful technique for rewriting living genomes, which has already been used at least once in (nonviable) human embryos and inspired calls for a voluntary moratorium on editing human egg, sperm, and embryonic cells.
Anti-Abortion Groups Join Battles Over Frozen Embryos
Anti-abortion groups are seeking a foothold on a new battlefield: custody disputes over frozen embryos.
Israeli Hospital Testing Testicle-zapping Cure for Infertility in Men
A hand-held electrocuting contraption that’s giving men hope is now being tested on human patients at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center after a successful study on animals, the Daily Mail reported on Monday.