Gea Bassett and Doug Smith of Seattle counted on a surrogacy service in India to fulfill their years’ long desire to have a second child. Now the couple is scrambling to recover their frozen fertilized eggs from a Mumbai fertility clinic after the country’s recent move to bar foreigners from hiring surrogate mothers.
Month: November 2015
Lena Dunham on Her Battle with Endometriosis: ‘I Had Lost All Trust in or Connection to My Own Body’
Lena Dunham is opening up about the painful struggle with endometriosis that forced her to lose “all trust in or connection to” her own body.
That Cool New Female Viagra Is a Bust
The drug, flibanserin, known commercially as Addyi, was developed by a German drug firm and acquired by a small North Carolina drug company that in turn was bought by Canadian pharma giant Valeant for a billion dollars in cash a day after the FDA approved its use by women suffering from low libido. That FDA approval came in the wake of a studied PR campaign by the North Carolina company, Sprout, that involved charging the FDA with sexism and busing dozens of women to FDA hearings where they offered tearful testimony about the havoc not wanting to have sex was wreaking on their lives. According to Sprout, more than 40 percent of all women are experiencing sexual dysfunction.
Womb Transplants – is Surrogacy Safer?
The recent news that the Health Research Authority has given approval to a UK charity to conduct a clinical trial for womb transplants is seen as welcome news for women without wombs. Womb Transplant UK, led by Dr Richard Smith, a consultant gynaecologist at the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in London, has been given approval to conduct a clinical trial involving ten womb transplants.
Changes in Metabolites Can Regulate Earliest Stages of Development
Changes in cellular metabolites have been shown to regulate embryonic stem cell development at the earliest stages of life. Metabolites are simple compounds generated during life-sustaining chemical activities in cells.
Some Mothers do ‘ave ’em: Mice with Two Mums Bred in China
Researchers unlock some of the mysteries of reproduction in an experiment that created healthy mouse pups from two female sources
China Exclusive: Two-child Policy Puts Pressure on Sperm Banks
China’s sperm banks are already facing a dearth of donors, and a government proposal to end the country’s decades-old one-child policy may put more pressure on the institutions.
Could Uterus Transplants Solve Infertility for some U.S. Women?
A team of doctors at the Cleveland Clinic will soon begin implanting uteruses into women who were born without them.
Did Shoddy Birth Control Cause 113 Pregnancies?
When a pharmaceutical company made a huge packaging error, users of its birth control got pregnant, a new lawsuit alleges. Now they want answers.
Fertility Clinics to Offer Discounts to Wounded Veterans
Many of the nation’s fertility clinics plan to offer discounts on in-vitro fertilization services to veterans with service-related injuries, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Assisted Reproduction Technology announced Wednesday.