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In Vitro Fertilization

Major IVF Breakthrough?

Posted 05.17.2013 | Parents

By Kate Kelland LONDON | Thu May 16, 2013 7:25pm EDT (Reuters) - British fertility experts have devised a new IVF technique that takes thousan...

Great News For Brazil's LGBT Community

AP | Posted 05.09.2013 | Gay Voices

BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazil is guaranteeing homosexual couples' right to access assisted fertilization. The wording of the an earlier decree governing...

May Catholic Supporters Of Marriage Equality Receive Communion?

Charles J. Reid, Jr. | Posted 04.16.2013 | Religion
Charles J. Reid, Jr.

This was the question put to Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit, who answered in the negative. To resolve this question in absolute terms, we need to know more about the Archbishop was thinking.

First Woman To Ever Receive Womb Transplant Gets Amazing News

AP | Posted 04.13.2013 | Parents

ANKARA, Turkey -- A hospital says a Turkish woman who became the first person to successfully receive the uterus of a dead donor may now be pregnant. ...

Senate Bill 115 is Necessary to Protect Children and Fathers

Fred Silberberg | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics
Fred Silberberg

The Uniform Parentage Act governs the determination of parentage of children who are born of parents that are not married.

Nobel-Winning Physiologist, 'In Vitro' Pioneer, Dies At 87

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 04.10.2013 | Science

LONDON — Robert Edwards, a Nobel laureate from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has ...

It Is Time for the U.S. to Cover IVF (for Gays and Lesbians Too)

Dov Fox | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics
Dov Fox

It is true that dysfertility fits less comfortably within the medical model. But why should that alone make less worthy the desires of gays and lesbians to have a genetic child?

The British Embryo Authority and the Chamber of Eugenics

Stuart A. Newman | Posted 05.11.2013 | Science
Stuart A. Newman

The genetic design of future offspring, even with the limited objective of making these future children more "normal," will open the door to attempts to pick and choose other characteristics.

Reassuring News About Fertility Treatments

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2013 | Parents

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Women getting fertility treatments can be reassured that in vitro fertilization (IVF) does not increase their risk of breast and ...

The Accidental Activist: Eggs and Politics

Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH | Posted 04.17.2013 | Science
Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH

While most doctors perceive personhood legislation as a threat to abortion rights -- which it is -- the potential legislation also impacts the treatment of complicated pregnancies and limits infertility procedures. And that's why fertility experts are worried.

Birth Defects On The Rise In Multiples: European Study

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2013 | Parents

Feb 8 (Reuters) - The number of birth defects among multiple births such as twins and triplets increased nearly two-fold in a score of European coun...

Factor May Predict A Baby's SIze

Posted 12.26.2012 | Parents

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 12/21/2012 05:33 PM EST on LiveScience The way in which embryos are prepared duri...

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 ...

Egg Donor's Infertility Heartbreak

Posted 12.05.2012 | HuffPost Live 321

Leah Campbell joined HuffPost Live Nancy Redd to share her heartbreaking story of infertility after successfully donating eggs to other families. C...

Woman Seeks Benefits For Children Conceived After Father's Death

Detroit Free Press | Paul Egan | Posted 01.13.2013 | Detroit

Note breakout at end; 23 inches without breakout.(AT) By PAUL EGAN Detroit Free Press LANSING, Mich. -- A case of whether children conceived throug...

SUCCESS: Scientists Create Embryo With Three 'Parents'

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 12.24.2012 | Science

NEW YORK — Scientists in Oregon have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that could someday be ...

Catherine Pearson

What You Need To Know About IVF And Birth Defects

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 10.20.2012 | Parents

In vitro fertilization is widely thought to be one of the great medical advances of the 20th century, helping women and couples have babies even if th...

Catherine Pearson

Infertility: Miracle Babies

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.02.2012 | Parents

Michelle was still nursing her daughter, born through in vitro fertilization, when she found out she was pregnant again. It was entirely unexpect...

Three Parents? New IVF Technique Stirs Controversy (WATCH)

Posted 09.28.2012 | Science

A new IVF technique being debated in England uses three genetic parents to create an embryo. This procedure helps avoid possible mitochondrial disease...

Woman Acts As Surrogate For Her Brother And Sister-In-Law

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 09.11.2012 | Parents

Things a sister might do for her brother and sister-in-law: host Thanksgiving at the last minute, get the mail when they're on vacation, maybe even co...

Carlos Harrison

'Latin America's Roe v. Wade' Case Heads Towards Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Carlos Harrison | Posted 09.06.2012 | Latino Voices

A case that pro-abortion rights advocates are calling Latin America’s “Roe v. Wade” moved Wednesday to an international court, which could make ...

Good News For Veterans

AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 10.19.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The roadside bomb that exploded outside Andrew Robinson's Humvee in Iraq six years ago broke the Marine staff sergeant's neck and l...

New Measure Could Mean Good News For Veterans

AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 10.18.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The roadside bomb that exploded outside Andrew Robinson's Humvee in Iraq six years ago broke the Marine staff sergeant's neck and l...

Fertility Drugs May Affect Children's Stature, Study Suggests

Posted 07.17.2012 | Science

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 07/16/2012 09:05 AM EDT on MyHealthNewsDaily Children conceived through use of fe...

Conservative Christians Rally Against Sperm Donors

Religion News Service | Chris Lisee | Posted 06.28.2012 | Religion

WASHINGTON (RNS) A new documentary exploring the ethical implications of sperm donation is creating a buzz among religious audiences. "Anonymous Fa...