Julia Savchenko / Vetta / Getty Images

A New Website Encourages Egg Freezing for Single Women

At 38, Brigitte Adams froze 11 eggs in hopes of becoming a mother one day. Frustrated by the lack of information about egg freezing available to women, she started Eggsurance, a website that offers guidance and clinic reviews.

Family Matters

Even as Babies, Cancer Patients Strive to Preserve Fertility

110401472.resize

Tina Robison, a gynecologic oncologist, sends all her patients of child-bearing age for counseling about ways to safeguard their fertility after they’ve been handed a cancer diagnosis. So when she and her husband, who is also a physician, learned that their own baby daughter had the rare muscle cancer rhabdomyosarcoma, they knew to ask how the [...]

Freezing eggs to delay starting a family?

New research from Belgium and the U.K. suggests that women may increasingly be considering freezing their eggs as a way to prolong fertility as they pursue a career — or find the right romantic partner. A survey of nearly 200 female students found that half of those pursuing degrees in sports or education would consider [...]