A Forbes Magazine article calls into question whether egg freezing, which is being done in increasing numbers, lacks scientific evidence of its effectiveness. Egg freezing isn’t new. In fact, the first baby conceived with an egg that had been frozen and then thawed was born 30 years ago.
But it was only a little more than four years ago, in …
New legislation may help patients with cancer and other aggressive diseases afford fertility preservation treatment. California state Senator Anthony Portantino has recently introduced a bill that would require insurance companies to cover fertility preservation treatment for patients undergoing medical treatments that may cause infertility. Per Senator Portantino, “It just doesn’t seem right that anyone should have to choose between fighting …
Making the decision to freeze your eggs is difficult, but now there are two new educational sites to help you evaluate your need to consider this option. A Fertility Estimator and several Egg Freezing Education Modules have been developed by the Frozen Egg Bank Network to help you make the decision .
Egg freezing allows women to maximize their chances …
According to a 2011 study reported in the journal Fertility & Sterility, most women who develop invasive breast cancer under age 40 will be advised to undergo chemotherapy with or without extended antihormonal therapy to reduce the risk of recurrence and death from breast cancer. Chemotherapy particularly with alkylating agents such as cyclophosphamide is toxic to the ovaries and markedly …
A new study shows that women who start having children later in life may live longer. This study, which was recently published in the American Journal of Public Health, showed that women who were older than 25 when they first gave birth were 11% more likely to live to age 90. Over 20,000 women enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative …
Some new fertility preservation option are on the horizon, but today the most realistic option for most women is egg or embryo freezing. An article in MedPage Today outlines some interesting options for very young women and girls needing to preserve their fertility because of cancer chemotherapy.
In June, researchers reported the first live birth from a young girl whose …
In 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine decided egg freezing was no longer an experimental procedure. That opened the door for clinics to market it to women who don’t have a medical reason to do it but are simply worried about their declining fertility — what’s being dubbed as “social” egg freezing.
John Robertson, a professor of law and …
This is from the horse’s mouth so-to-speak. In an article in the Des Moines Register, Courtney Crowder tells a personal story from an unwanted pregnancy as a teen to an eight year struggle with infertility when older.
“WHO-TV anchor Erin Kiernan got pregnant at 16.
When she decided to have another baby at 33, she discovered she had a …
Egg or embryo freezing is the most common option for menstruating women trying to preserve their fertility before chemotherapy or radiation for cancer. But what about children before they start menstruating?
An article in the Washington Post reports on a new option from a study in Human Reproduction. Doctors in Belgium tried to restore the fertility of a woman using …
According to an article in the Washington Post among urban women in their 30s, freezing is trending. Suddenly, many women “now have a friend of a friend who has frozen,” says Sarah Elizabeth Richards, a journalist who has had eggs frozen twice.
Only two years ago, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine lifted the “experimental” label long attached to egg …