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Chinese couple has eight babies, violating nation's one-child law

Beijing - The pictures of the 8 babies born to one Chinese couple are cute as can be. But such an achievement in a country that limits couples to just one child is creating a furor. Chinese media is calling the mother “babaotai muqin,” or “octo-mom".

In the Media by Joan Firstenberg - 1 comment

Canada: Doctors propose denying obese women fertility treatments

Obese women will have a hard time finding fertility clinics that will provide them with in-vitro fertilization treatments if a proposed ban by Canadian doctors takes effect.

In the Media by Kim I. Hartman

'Father of test tube baby' wins Nobel Prize for Medicine

British scientist Robert Edwards, who helped revolutionise the treatment of human infertility, has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has announced.

In the Media by Subir Ghosh - 1 comment

Japanese scientists fertilize human eggs with two biological moms

The possibility of 3-parent babies grows nearer as researchers use eggs from younger women to repair damages in older women's eggs, improving their chances of fertility.

In the Media by Heidi Lowry

British scientists create human sperm from stem cells

A team of British scientists announced that they have created human sperm from embryonic stem cells. The achievement is a first in medicine and underscores the need for broad-based stem cell research.

In the Media by Michael Krebs - 2 comments

Exposure to PFCs May Reduce Women’s Fertility

Researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health have found the first evidence that perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) may be associated with infertility in women.

In the Media by Bob Ewing

100-year-old women to give birth

According to a research team led by Davor Solter of the Institute of Medical Biology in Singapore, infertility will be a thing of the past, with every woman being able to have a baby.

In the Media by Vinay Chand - 7 comments

New York Doctors To Perform Nation's First Uterus Transplant

The New York doctors are gearing themselves for first uterus transplant in the United States. Though facing many ethical questions, the transplant is expected to offer hope to childless and intertile women.

In the Media by nidsjourno - 3 comments

Womb Transplants May Be Infertility Solution

Brain-dead organ donors seen as a "supply" for organ donation

In the Media by Carolyn E. Price - 1 comment

Piecing together the infertility puzzle

Couples with infertility problems often focus on the wamans biological clock and forget about the male contribution

In the Media by greger69 - 1 comment

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VIDEO: NHS accused of IVF 'postcode lottery'

The NHS has been accused of creating a postcode lottery for IVF treatment, as one in six couples who are affected by infertility turn to private clinics for help.

Infertile Canadians buy frozen human eggs from U.S.

Canadian couples with fertility problems can buy frozen eggs online from U.S. egg banks and have them shipped to clinics here, thanks to advances in reproductive technology and a void in government regulation.

Vatican board courts controversy with neutral scientists

Members of the Vatican's bioethics advisory panel call for its board to resign after scientists who don't support core church teaching on issues like birth control and infertility were featured at its annual conference.

Egg Yolk Drip to Treat Infertility?

Four rounds of in vitro fertilization couldn’t help Sara Conyers conceive, according to the UK paper The Daily Mail. The fifth time was the charm for Conyers, 33, who now has twins. Conyers says the only way she was able to get pregnant was with...