A study presented at the British Science Festival argues that freezing embryos before implantation in the IVF process results better outcomes for both mother and baby. In the study — done by Dr Abha Maheshwari of Aberdeen University and published in the Fertility Sterility journal – 13,000 IVF pregnancies were studied, and it was found that frozen ... read more »
The Sher Fertility Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada has helped bring over 18,000 babies into the world. But a controversial contest run by the facility has some people wondering about the institute’s true intentions. In the beginning of June, the company ran a contest, in recognition of Father’s Day called the “I Believe Video Journal ... read more »
A recent scientific study could break new ground in treating women who are infertile due to age or disease. The study’s results, released on Sunday, challenge a long-held medical belief that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. Lead researcher Jonathan Tilly, of Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, said his team has ... read more »
The world’s largest sperm bank is telling interested sperm donors with red hair thanks, but no thanks. Cryos International says that its clients treat ginger sperm like redheaded stepchildren, and the demand for women wanting mini Prince Williams or Julianne Moores is so low that the company is turning away redheaded donors, saying that they ... read more »
After using a sperm donor with her partner to conceive a baby, one woman decided to keep track of the other children that had the same donor father and found the number to be a whopping 150. And the list is still getting longer. Cynthia Daily, 48, began keeping track through the Internet after ... read more »
Nadya Suleman, the woman known as the Octomom, reports that she was on “A cocktail of drugs” including vailum when the doctor gave her the consent form to sign before implanting 12 embryos. Suleman was supposedly on medication for pain from uterine contractions when she visited California fertility specialist Dr. Michael Kamrava in his Beverly Hills ... read more »
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