When IVF creates excess embryos, women are faced with a choice: store them indefinitely, donate them to others or offer them to research.
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‘Personhood’: How Mississippi’s Proposal Could Affect Everything from Abortion to the Drinking Age
Mississippi voters are deciding today on whether a fertilized egg should be legally considered a “person.” They’ll be choosing to reject or support Initiative 26, which was until weeks ago expected to pass easily but is now …
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Is Sperm from Redheads Really Less Desirable?
Redheaded men are probably feeling a little hurt this week in light of news that one of the world’s largest sperm banks is up-to-here and has stopped accepting their gametes.
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Baby-Selling Scam Focuses Attention on Surrogacy
Thanks to surrogates, thousands of people have become parents. Each arrangement takes into account a swirl of complex details: whose genetic material will be implanted in the surrogate; how it will be transferred; where the …
Review: Aspirin Doesn’t Increase Chances of Pregnancy With IVF
Taking aspirin during fertility treatment does not increase women’s chances of conceiving, according to a new review of the research.
Sperm Gene May Explain Some Male Infertility
A mutation in a gene for a sperm-related protein found in 20% of men may be responsible for a significant proportion of unexplained male infertility, according to a new study.
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Should Men Be Allowed to Father Children After They’re Dead?
Fertility-treatment innovations mean that all sorts of people who would not have been able to have a baby a generation ago are now able to bring life into the world. Now, some are arguing the ranks of the newly fertile should …
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Could Too Much Coffee Affect Chances of Pregnancy?
Caffeine may perk you up mentally, but it could have the opposite effect on your fallopian tubes, leading researchers to wonder whether women who drink coffee, tea and soda may have a harder time getting pregnant.
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Mind-Body Programs Boost Pregnancy Rates for IVF Patients
Infertility treatment is stressful: everyone else seems to be getting pregnant; why can’t you? So what if there were an evidence-based method that could dramatically increase the success of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF?
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Avoiding Ethical Quandaries In Embryo Donation
When it’s most successful, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, yields far more embryos than a couple could ever use (unless that couple is the offspring-obsessed Duggar family). There are frequently frozen embryos left over, and …
From Heroin to IVF: A Healthland Contributor’s ‘Needle Exchange’
“The last time I gave myself an injection, the needle held heroin,” writes Healthland’s Maia Szalavitz in an honest, insightful essay that appears on the new addiction and recovery-themed site The Fix. Twenty-two years after …
Can Patients Get Around the Exorbitant New Cost of a Pregnancy Drug?
The cost of a drug used to prevent premature birth in high-risk mothers will rise from around $10 per dose to $1,500, now that the FDA has approved a branded version of the medication.
Stress Doesn’t Hurt Chances of Success with IVF
Of all the factors that infertile couples worry about, they can now stop worrying about one: worry. It turns out that stress and tension, while detrimental to overall health, may have little impact on couples’ chances of …
