Infertility
What’s the Best Way to Pay for Fertility Treatments?
A personal-finance expert on what to expect financially when you want to be expecting
Baby Contest: Couples Compete for Free IVF — Is This Exploitation or Generosity?
Last week, the Sher Fertility Institute selected three couples out of 45 who had submitted personal, emotionally wrenching videos in order to win a free IVF cycle. For one judge, choosing her favorites felt like “playing God”
Smoking and Drinking May Not Harm Male Fertility
Doctors often recommend lifestyle changes for men facing infertility: avoid cigarettes, cut back on drinking, lose weight. That’s great advice for an overall healthy life, but a new study suggests it won’t necessarily help men …
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.
Could a Fertility Gene Discovery Lead to New Male Contraception?
University of Edinburgh researchers say they’ve identified a gene crucial to sperm development that could be a target for a new form of male birth control.
Supreme Court Rules Against Benefits for Posthumously Conceived Kids
Karen Capato used her deceased husband’s frozen sperm to conceive twins. The Supreme Court has ruled the kids aren’t eligible for federal benefits because of their posthumous conception. Will the decision cause people to think …
My Sister, My Surrogate: After Battling Cancer, One Woman Receives the Ultimate Mother’s Day Gift
Melissa Brown survived breast cancer at 26. Advised not to get pregnant afterward, she accepted with joy and trepidation her sister’s offer to be her gestational surrogate.
The Link Between Infertility Treatments and Birth Defects
A new study seeks to answer a longstanding chicken-or-egg question: do infertility treatments raise the risk of birth defects, or is the risk linked to infertility itself?
Donor-Conceived Children: As Adults, They Don’t Stop Wondering Who They Are
Donor conception is certainly more popular these days, but its origins can be traced to the 1400s.
Frozen Assets: Why American Sperm Is a Hot Commodity
While in Australia visiting family for the holidays, I heard a story on the radio about how almost all Australian sperm — yes, the human kind — is imported from the U.S. How odd, I thought, I wonder why?
Most Young Women with Cancer Don’t Try to Preserve their Fertility
Just 4% of women of childbearing age with cancer take steps to mitigate the risks of infertility inherent in many treatments.
Who Is a Child? The Supreme Court Decides
Should children conceived after a father’s death be eligible for government benefits? The Supreme Court’s not sure.