Fertility Clinics Have Differing Policies
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They'll check her ovaries and her bank account, but few U.S. fertility clinics have policies for determining a woman's emotional or mental fitness to have a child, let alone whether it's OK to help one who is past menopause, a new survey reveals.
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Women with fertility and miscarriage problems are being offered unproven tests, say researchers.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Babies conceived through fertility treatments have higher rates of birth defects, but the overall risk is so small that it should not keep couples from having children this way, doctors are reporting.
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Don't count on freezing eggs to offset a ticking biological clock just yet. So say new guidelines for fertility specialists that conclude the procedure remains highly experimental even though it is increasingly offered.
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(HealthDay News) -- Infertility -- defined by the American Academy of Family Physicians as the inability of a couple to become pregnant after one year of trying -- affects about 15 percent of the population.
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When doctors at Shady Grove Fertility Centers told a 34-year-old construction supervisor that he had a low sperm count and that was likely why he and his wife had been unable to conceive, the news came as something of a shock.
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LONDON, Aug 24 (IPS) - More than 700 professionals in the health field   from 107 countries will gather in London next week to push  forward a  delivery of reproductive health services that has been  slowing down if  not stalling.
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LONDON, Aug 25  (IPS) - There could hardly be two conferences taking place  at the same time whose aims  would be further apart than the  Republican Party convention in New York and the  reproductive  health conference in London. Both meetings begin end of this  month.
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UK fertility clinics are facing a severe shortage of sperm donors, a BBC survey indicates.
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NEW YORK  - Black and Asian women have much  lower rates of success with assisted reproductive techniques  such as in vitro fertilization than other racial groups,  researchers reported at the annual meeting of the American  Society of Reproductive Medicine that is underway in  Philadelphia.
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Women must have more control over how they give birth as well as where, new NHS guidance states.
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Every year, in vitro fertilization clinics produce more embryos than they use in helping women get pregnant. A new study shows a wide discrepancy in what happens to the extras, from incineration to freezing. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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A UK fertility centre starts offering cut-price IVF treatment for women who donate their eggs to research.
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Fertility clinics are overusing a laboratory technique and costing infertile couples and some insurers hundreds of extra dollars, a new study suggests.
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Two sets of sextuplets were born in different states less than a day apart, a rare occurrence but one that fertility experts say could become increasingly common as more couples seek artificial methods of conceiving babies.
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TORONTO -- Post-partum depression clinics, breastfeeding clinics and other vital women&#39;s health services are on the chopping block as the province demands that hospitals balance their budgets next year, advocates warned yesterday.
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Women in the North are being offered half-price fertility treatment if they donate some eggs to research.