A law banning commercial surrogacy took effect in Thailand on Thursday, the public health ministry said.The law made it illegal for clinics to provide surrogacy services, including the buying and selling of sperm and eggs, and the renting of wombs by surrogate mothers.
Month: July 2015
IUDs Have A New, Secret Billionaire Backer
According to a feature from Bloomberg’s latest issue, titled “Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution,” the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation has been quietly providing seed funds for research on lowering the cost of IUDs, along with studies and initatives meant to increase access to and overage usage of the device.
Transgender Teen, 18, Undergoes Rare Surgery So He Can Be a Dad One Day
Cole Carman, 18, became the first transgender teen to have a surgical procedure that will give him the opportunity to have a genetic link to the kids he knows he wants one day.
Why I Had an Abortion After Struggling With Infertility for Years
Minnesota lawyer Hannah Stein had her first abortion at 22 and went on to conceive four more children, three of them through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Yet when faced with an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy after years of infertility, Stein didn’t hesitate to terminate. Stein spoke to Cosmopolitan.com about how struggling with infertility didn’t sway her in her inherent belief that a person should be able to choose if she wants to end a pregnancy.
Wheaton College Ends Coverage Amid Fight Against Birth Control Mandate
Taking a firm stand against Obamacare’s controversial contraception mandate, Wheaton College on Friday will stop providing any health insurance for students.
8 Things No One Ever Told You About Menopause
Menopause. Say the word and it instantly conjures images of hot flashes, zero amounts of sex, and a general feeling of why is this happening to me? But don’t lose your cool just yet—it’s not all downhill from here on out.
New Data Shows Young Cancer Patients Uninformed Of Infertility
Data suggests that many young cancer patients are completely unaware that treatment for their condition may result in fertility.
A Nobel Winner Looks to Create Life in His Lab
Many scientists spend their lives trying to answer just one question. But geneticist Jack Szostak says there’s lots of problems to solve. He spent the first two decades of his career investigating chromosomes, specifically the role played by telomeres, tiny structures at the ends of chromosomes, and the enzyme telomerase, which revolutionized what we know about the aging process.
That research, from the 1980s, earned him a share of the 2009 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine. In the 1990s, Szostak turned his attention to RNA and its role in the early evolution of life.
A Nobel Winner Looks to Create Life in His Lab
Many scientists spend their lives trying to answer just one question. But geneticist Jack Szostak says there’s lots of problems to solve. He spent the first two decades of his career investigating chromosomes, specifically the role played by telomeres, tiny structures at the ends of chromosomes, and the enzyme telomerase, which revolutionized what we know about the aging process.
That research, from the 1980s, earned him a share of the 2009 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine. In the 1990s, Szostak turned his attention to RNA and its role in the early evolution of life.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: The Silent Disorder that Wreaks Havoc on the Body
One in every 10 women has polycystic ovary syndrome, a disorder that is the leading cause of female infertility and a risk factor for diabetes, cancer, heart disease and other life-threatening illnesses. Yet half of all women with PCOS are undiagnosed.