Japan doctor says helped births through surrogacy
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A Japanese obstetrician said on Sunday he had helped two couples have babies through surrogate mothers over the past two years, criticizing moves by academics to make the practice illegal.
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A County Down couple get the go-ahead to begin fertility treatment which could save their son's life.
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Japanese scientists helped infertile salmon sire baby trout by lending them trout sperm, a technique that could save endangered species, according to research published in the United States Thursday.
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Thousands of British women left infertile after cancer treatment have been given new hope by the world&#39;s first birth of a baby following an ovarian transplant.
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After referring to women as "baby-making machines," Japan's health minister could be going out with the bathwater
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Scientists believe they have made an IVF breakthrough by creating a human embryo with three separate parents.
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Japan&#39;s Crown Princess Masako says she is recovering slowly from a stress-related illness most attribute to pressure to produce a male heir, but she Is still unable to resume official duties after a year in seclusion.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - "It's a dream," proclaimed the beaming 32-year-old new mother Friday as she cuddled her day-old baby girl, born following a pioneering ovarian tissue transplant performed after the woman was made infertile by chemotherapy.    Doctors hailed the breakthrough procedure, saying it sent a "big message of hope" to cancer patients who have lost their fertility and could one day allow women to delay motherhood beyond menopause...
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Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.
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Scientists in Japan claim to be able to increase the size of a woman's breasts using fat and stem cells.
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A doctor said Friday he had no regrets about helping a teacher become possibly the world's oldest woman to give birth, even though he now faces an ethics investigation.
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Japan's Princess Kiko entered the operating room to deliver her third child early Wednesday, news reports said, as the nation anxiously awaited word on whether the imperial family will have its first male heir in four decades.
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NAGAOKA, Niigata -- An infant boy who was rescued four days after being under rubble from the Niigata quake has frequently asked about his dead mother while undergoing treatment at a local hospital, hospital officials said Saturday.
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TOKYO -- A 60-year-old woman impregnated in the United States via in-vitro fertilization will become what is believed to be the oldest single mother in Japan to give birth from a donated egg, medical officials said Thursday.
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A former cancer patient who experts thought was infertile gives birth to a baby at a hospital in Edinburgh.
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When a newborn baby girl was left in Japan's controversial "baby hatch" last week, the child's life may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A1 of the Dec. 30, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. IVY CATHERINE Tomenio, along with her Japanese husband and their three young children, left their