The oldest known animal sperm fossil has been discovered in a 50-million-year-old cocoon from Antarctica.
Category: Fertility Headlines
Divorced Couple’s Embryo Feud Could Affect How Fertility Clinics Do Business
A divorced couple’s battle for control over their frozen embryos could affect how fertility clinics approach freezing embryos, experts said of the precedents the case may set.
Is This Old-Fashioned Birth Control Actually Making a Comeback?
A Virginia-based women’s health company hopes to reinvigorate interest in an old form of birth control with Caya, the first one-size-fits-most diaphragm.
The Truth About Infertility: 10 Honest Confessions
Infertility affects approximately 1.5 million women in the U.S., yet many suffer quietly, afraid to discuss their pain out loud. Struggles to get pregnant often cause anger, jealousy, confusion and loneliness — all emotions that are hard to manage alone. Some women who are hesitant to voice their concerns aloud share their true confessions on the secret-sharing app Whisper, a cheaper-than-therapy (free!) outlet for brutal honesty.
Sydney Wife Wins Right to Collect Dying Husband’s Sperm but Ordered Not to Use It
Da Yong Chen, a 45-year-old father of one, experienced severe chest pain on the morning of July 6. Doctors at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital found that a major blood vessel had ruptured and ordered he undergo emergency surgery. His condition was considered acute and life-threatening. Just before he was put under a general anaesthetic, he told his wife Ping Yuan he “wanted to have one more child with her”.
Calif., Ore. Allow Women to Get Birth Control Without a Prescription
California and Oregon will be the first states in the nation to allow women to get birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives directly from their pharmacists – without a doctor’s prescription.
The GOP’s War on Birth Control
For 45 years, the federal government has subsidized contraception for poor and uninsured women, quietly preventing millions of abortions and unintended pregnancies.
Mom, 3 Surrogates Come Together for Baby Shower
Sarah Levine and Eric Landot’s very long path to parenthood took them overseas and involved a very large team that became a very tight-knit, extended family.
A BC Alum’s New Site Links LGBT Couples With Egg Donors, Sperm Donors & Surrogates
Today, there are no shortage of options when it comes to starting a family without traditional conception. But that doesn’t mean it’s an easy road. For LGBT couples or those with reproductive challenges, finding egg donors, sperm donors or viable surrogates is a long and complicated process. Bird Meets Bee, a new tech resource built by a Boston College alum, seeks to simplify things by basically serving as a dating site for fertility.
Polish Senate Approves New Law on In Vitro Fertilization
Poland’s Senate approved a government bill that provides coherent regulations for in vitro fertilization and makes the procedure also available to unwed couples, part of a larger effort to promote more births in the aging nation.