According to an article in USA Today, more U.S. women are attempting to have children using eggs donated by other women and taking home healthy babies as a result.
Fertility clinics reported 18,306 procedures using fresh or frozen donated eggs in 2010, up from 10,801 in 2000, according to the study published online by the Journal of the American …
This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
Two studies at ASRM 2012 addressed the …
This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
When a woman over 4o is considering …
An article in the October 5, 2012 Wall Street Journal reports that Japanese scientists have made mouse eggs capable of being fertilized.
The experiment completes a long-sought quest in reproductive biology: to make sperm and eggs in a lab dish. A year ago, the same core group of scientists at Kyoto University created healthy mouse sperm in the lab.
Twenty-somethings who postponed having babies because of the poor economy are still hesitant to jump into parenthood — an unexpected consequence that has dropped the USA's birthrate to its lowest point in 25 years as reoorted in USA Today.
The fertility rate is not expected to rebound for at least two years and could affect birthrates for years to …
Researchers say they have extracted stem cells from human ovaries and made them generate new egg cells. The advance, as reported in the New York Times, if confirmed, might provide a new source of eggs for treating infertility, though scientists say it is far too early to tell if the work holds such promise.
Women are born with a complement of egg …
This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
Egg donation has been a clinical …
Q. How much of a danger is salomonella to recipients of egg donation?
A. No more than the average person.
Q. Then why are FDA inspectors spending their time in IVF centers monitoring egg donation records while members of the public are dying from salmonella infection?
A. It's because a well-meaning Congress assigned the FDA to monitor the infectious disease …