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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The nation's fertility clinics vary widely when it comes to how they perform one of the most delicate aspects of their jobs: disposing of unused frozen human embryos that were created to help infertile women become pregnant.
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Couples who have undergone fertility treatment would rather donate their unused embryos to stem-cell medical research than have them destroyed or passed on to other infertile couples, a new survey finds.
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AURORA, Ill. -- When Planned Parenthood wanted to open an abortion clinic in this Chicago suburb, its construction contractor opted not to disclose the purpose of the building when applying for city building permits.
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New rules on identifying sperm donors are blamed for a severe shortage of supplies at a south Wales fertility clinic.
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Almost 70% of fertility clinics have no access to donor sperm or find it very hard to obtain, a BBC survey reveals.
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Severely overweight women should be   denied access to free fertility treatment in England and Wales   and obese women must lose weight before being offered the   chance to try IVF, experts said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - For women undergoing fertility treatment, the decision over whether to tell their employer seems to have little effect on their general stress levels, a study suggests.
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Women in the North are being offered half-price fertility treatment if they donate some eggs to research.
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Boy or girl? Almost half of U.S. fertility clinics that offer embryo screening say they allow couples to choose the sex of their child, the most extensive survey of the practice 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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Not knowing what to expect and fearing the worst, men scheduled to visit an infertility clinic will sometimes cancel their appointment. However, new research by German investigators indicates that a simple information leaflet, mailed to the men in advance, can allay their concerns, making cancelation less likely.
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A couple's ability to access IVF on the NHS is a complete lottery, according to a new report.
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Two leading British clinics are to offer egg-freezing services to women seeking to delay pregnancy.
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LONDON, Aug 28 (IPS) - A new push to reproductive health services planned   at a London conference next week will have to work in Sierra  Leone if  anywhere.
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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.