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Aging Sperm? Not the World's End

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 02.26.2013 | Healthy Living
Elizabeth Gregory

Judith Shulevitz's recent New Republic essay on how later parenthood is "upending American society" claims that delaying kids could lead us down a rabbit hole of genetic decline. The piece gathers much of its energy from new studies suggesting that male sperm quality decays with age.

I Donated My Eggs For The Money -- And I Don't Regret It

Jasmine Stein | Posted 04.29.2013 | Women
Jasmine Stein

For women it sometimes feels like once we get to a certain age, we are destined to hand over control of our bodies to another being, along with whatever hopes and dreams we had for ourselves.

Catherine Pearson

Are Fertility Clinic Sites Lying To Women?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.07.2012 | Women

Smiling babies. Confusing statistics. Talk of miracles. There is too little oversight of how fertility clinics market themselves online, a new report ...

Catherine Pearson

The IVF Issue No One Is Talking About

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 11.01.2012 | Women

Women being treated for infertility tend to be informed and vocal about the challenges of the process. In the blogosphere especially, infertility pati...

Egg Freezing Gets New Stamp Of Approval

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 12.19.2012 | Women

WASHINGTON — Freezing human eggs can be successful in treating infertility – but guidelines issued Friday still urge caution for women hop...

New Fertility Treatments May Ease 'Biological Clock' Fears

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 10.05.2012 | Science

NEW YORK -- Scientists have turned mouse skin cells into eggs that produced baby mice – a technique that, if successfully applied to humans, cou...

Senate Approves Coverage Of IVF And Other Fertility Treatment For Veterans

AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 09.13.2012 | Women

WASHINGTON -- A Senate commitee on Wednesday approved legislation that expands access to infertility treatment for seriously injured veterans. The bi...

How Cancer In My Early 20s Almost Cost Me My Fertility -- Almost

Ashbey Riley | Posted 10.31.2012 | Women
Ashbey Riley

I learned that if I'm grateful to be here, I have to accept the consequences of what it took to save me.

Involuntary Childlessness

Erica Berman | Posted 10.22.2012 | Healthy Living
Erica Berman

After years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, three miscarriages, and a husband unwilling to consider other family-building options, Shannon is considering giving up her dream of having another child. She wanted to know if she would ever get over her childlessness.

Catherine Pearson

Do Fertility Drugs Make Patients More Susceptible To Breast Cancer?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 07.10.2012 | Women

Even before E! host Giuliana Rancic's breast cancer diagnosis shone a spotlight on it, researchers had questions about a possible link between fertili...

I Traveled 9,000 Miles For IVF

Adrienne Arieff | Posted 07.29.2012 | Women
Adrienne Arieff

Even though I've been on planes, trains, and automobiles to get here, the full weight of my passage and of what I hope to achieve in this journey has not quite resonated until now.

Do Fertility Treatments Cause Birth Defects? Researchers Find Answers

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 05.07.2012 | Parents

-- Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility ...

Stem Cell Shocker Suggests New Fix For Infertility

AP/The Huffington Post | By LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 02.27.2012 | Science

WASHINGTON -- For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they'll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dog...

Radio Win A Baby Contest Sparking Controversy

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.07.2011 | Parents

Ottawa's radio Hot 89.9 is stirring up some controversy after they advertised a new contest for parents. The prize? A baby. Or, more specifica...

Study: Older, Unmarried, Educated Moms On Rise

AP | LEANNE ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

New mothers in the U.S. are increasingly older and better educated than they were two decades ago, according to a study on the state of American mothe...

Octomom's Fertility Doctor Punished

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The Beverly Hills doctor who gave fertility treatments to octuplets mom Nadya Suleman has been expelled from a professio...