In a world with porous borders and wildly divergent surrogacy laws, making a baby can be a global affair: The eggs might come from a woman in South Africa, the sperm from a man in Canada, and the surrogate herself might be in Cambodia. What connects them, literally, is a cold chain.
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Canada Will Partially Fund IVF Treatments For Women Under 43 — Fingers Crossed The U.S. Follows Their Lead
This week, though, thousands of would-be parents in Canada scored a major victory: On Thursday, Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced that the Ontario government will partially fund in vitro fertilization treatments for women 43-years-old and younger.
The Great Lesbian Sperm Crisis
Semen is one of the most abundant resources on the planet, with men producing an estimated 1,500 sperm cells every second. But in places like Canada and the U.K. where sperm donation is limited, family building is a unique logistical challenge, especially for lesbians.
Exclusive: Meet the World’s First Baby Born With an Assist from Stem Cells
Doctors in Canada have begun a new chapter in medical history, delivering the first in a wave of babies expected to be born this summer through a technique that some experts think can dramatically improve the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Fertility Clinic First in Canada to Allow IVF Patients to ‘Incubate’ Embryos Inside their Bodies
A Toronto fertility clinic has become the first in Canada to offer women undergoing in-vitro fertilization the chance to “incubate” the embryos they hope will one day become a baby inside their bodies, instead of a lab dish.
Synthetic Protein Offers New Hope for Male Infertility
A research team from Queen’s University in Canada, led by Richard Oko, has indentified a method of inducing fertilization using a synthetic version of the protein PAWP found in sperm cells.
Use of Donor Sperm by Lesbians Rises in Canada, Study Finds
Use of donor sperm by lesbian couples increased significantly after gay marriage was legalized in the province of Ontario, Canada, a new study finds.
Baldness Drug Can Cause Sexual Problems, Infertility and Depression
The drug that treats baldness, Propecia (finasteride) has been shown to cause decreased sperm count levels in a recent study by researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Abandoned Embryos: Clinics Ethically Free to Dispose of Thousands of Embryos Frozen in Time, Doctors’ Group Says
It is the most emotionally charged issue in assisted baby-making: how to “dispose” of the thousands of human embryos that sit frozen in time in fertility clinics across Canada, believed abandoned by the couples that created them.
Women Taking Recalled Freya-28 Pill Advised to Use Backup Contraception
Women who have been taking an oral contraceptive that’s been recalled due to a packaging error could be at risk of an unwanted pregnancy if the entire batch was affected, says the head of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.