Dr. Andy Huang speaks with Katrin Ericson presenting information on the role of genetic testing and IVF for parents who want to have children despite the risks associated with heritable disease such as blood cancer. You can learn more about genetic testing for gene defects on our website.…
When most people think about in vitro fertilization (IVF), they think of its use as a treatment for infertility. IVF can also be used to treat non-infertility conditions though. A growing space for the use of IVF is to use it as a treatment to reduce or eliminate inherited diseases from a family’s blood line.
Eliminating the risk of passing …
There is an emerging ethical morass in the field of reproductive medicine: what to do when patients seeking to get pregnant select embryos with DNA that could lead to a disease or disability. Should clinicians’ desire to help their patients have children override concerns about possibly doing harm to those children? And what about cases in which patients end up …
Women expecting a baby or planning a pregnancy are being offered a fast-growing array of tests to check if they are carriers for hundreds of mostly rare genetic diseases, as reported in the January 6th issue of the Wall Street Journal.
Such genetic testing, called carrier screening, has long been targeted mainly at people of certain ethnic groups such as …
According to a survey of 26 sperm banks reported in the July 2010 edition of Fertility and Sterility, sperm banks vary considerably in their practices of genetic screening of donors.
Cystic fibrosis carrier screening, chromosome analyses, and hemoglobin evaluations are performed on the majority of sperm donor applicants. Tay-Sachs disease carrier screening is performed on most donors with Jewish heritage but …
