July 2, 2008
Stanford researchers try to improve IVF odds. This weekend, the first baby in the U.K. guaranteed not to have the breast cancer gene was born. So where will genetic screening lead? Slashdot debates. California wants to pay women for eggs for stem cell research. A Minnesota woman tries to conceive her husband’s...
July 1, 2008
Part Two of my interview with Dr. John D. Gordon. For Part One, click here.When patients ask you for advice on the web, how do you typically respond? JDG: If they don’t tell me how old they are, I ask how old they are. I’ll ask if there’s a sperm issue sometimes. Usually they lay out in their little shorthand exactly...
July 1, 2008
Dr. John D. Gordon is a reproductive endocrinologist and co-director at Dominion Fertility and Endocrinology in Arlington, VA. He’s practiced for over ten years, and trained at Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco. Last year, he and his business partner, Dr. Michael DiMattina, published a guide for...
June 27, 2008
Here’s a welcome development: India is working on legislation to address the recent boom in surrogate motherhood there: Concerned with an increasing number of foreigners coming to India to rent a womb, the government is planning to come out with regulations to ensure legal and medical rights to surrogate mothers and children born...
June 27, 2008
The number of treatments with donor sperm has dropped to record lows since Britain banned donor anonymity in 2005, reports the London Daily Mail: The first official figures since the Government removed anonymity from donors in 2005 show that the number of women treated with donated sperm fell by about 20 per cent from 2,727 in 2005 to...
June 25, 2008
Today in the Globe & Mail, three professors are protesting a decision by the Quebec Court of Appeal to nullify parts of the federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act: The children of assisted reproduction must be the clear priority because they are the most affected for the longest time. The wishes of many are clear: to know their...
June 23, 2008
Canada is working to create a national sperm donor registry, according to the London Free Press. For now, donors will be allowed to remain anonymous: Sweden was the first country in 1986 to pass a law requiring donor information be collected and the identity provided to children. The U.K. passed a similar law in 2005. Canada is now...
June 23, 2008
CDC: One in every 100 U.S. babies is a test-tube baby. Solo “daddies”: More men are going it alone. 52-year-old woman gives birth to her own grandchildren. “Children–It’s now or never.” Too posh to adopt? “More little Quebecers, more little taxpayers?” But if...
June 18, 2008
A terrific article by Will Saletan on the coming “chemical wars” over sexual orientation: Last year, Rev. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote: “If a biological basis is found, and if a prenatal test is then developed, and if a successful treatment to reverse the sexual...
June 16, 2008
Will same-sex marriage lead to a “brave new world?” Doug Kmiec says yes. Million-dollar babies: When is early intervention too early? Don’t cry for my fertility. Cancer patients opt to preserve sperm and eggs. The British Fertility Society questions the efficacy of embryo screening. ...