Maryland couple reveal how they found strangers on FACEBOOK to be their surrogates after spate of failed pregnancies
A Maryland couple (pictured) struggling with infertility turned to social media to find a women to be their surrogate and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for strangers to carry their children. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Alabama clinic resumes IVF treatments under new law shielding providers from liability
At least one clinic in Alabama has resumed in vitro fertilization treatments after the governor signed a bill into law shielding providers from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Alabama Fertility Specialists performed several embryo…#cbsnews #mamiemclean #ivf #alabamafertility #alabamasupremecourt #hannahmiles #alabamalegislature #republicans #mobile (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fertility clinic licence suspended over concerns
Regulators have ordered the centre to halt any new procedures while an investigation continues. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lawsuit claiming Flo Health app shared intimate data with Facebook greenlit as Canadian class action
A Canadian class-action lawsuit accusing a popular fertility-tracking app of sending users’ intimate health information — including details about their periods, sex lives and pregnancies — to companies like Facebook without their knowledge has been allowed to go ahead. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
Scientists move step closer to making IVF eggs from skin cells
Procedure could overcome common forms of infertility and help people have children who share their DNAScientists are a step closer to making IVF eggs from patients ’ skin cells after adapting the procedure that created Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, more than two decades ago.The work raises the prospect of older women being able to have children who share their DNA, and to overcome common forms of infertility caused by a woman ’s eggs becoming damaged by disease or cancer treatment.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: IVF Medical research Science Health Fertility problems Genetics Embryos Biology World news Source Type: news
Alabama clinic resumes IVF treatments under new law shielding providers from liability
At least one fertility clinic in Alabama has resumed in vitro fertilization treatments (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
The population problem in Singapore is also an economic problem
Singapore's government said that its fertility rate has fallen to a record low. It's one of many industrialized countries trying to encourage its people to have more babies.#singapore (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How a Sudden Halt to In Vitro Fertilization Shook Alabama Couples
Many suffered setbacks after the State Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos were children. “Someone else’s opinion changed my future,” one woman said. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Law and Legislation Decisions and Verdicts Embryos (Human) Abortion Fertility Drugs Pregnancy and Childbirth Reproduction (Biological) Babies and Infants In Vitro Fertilization Infertility Supreme Courts (State) A Source Type: news
Alabama enacts fast-tracked law to protect IVF
Its passage comes less than a month after state fertility services paused when a court ruled that frozen embryos are children. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Alabama IVF Protection Bill Will Reopen Clinics but Curb Patient Rights
Here ’s what to know about the legislation, which the state legislature is expected to approve overwhelmingly on Wednesday. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jan Hoffman Tags: your-feed-science Law and Legislation Decisions and Verdicts State Legislatures Suits and Litigation (Civil) Malpractice Infertility Embryos (Human) Supreme Courts (State) Compensation for Damages (Law) In Vitro Fertilization Politic Source Type: news
Science integrity sleuths welcome legal aid fund for whistleblowers
A Silicon Valley investor has pledged $1 million to help pay the legal costs of scientists being sued for flagging fraudulent research. Yun-Fang Juan, an engineer and data scientist by background, hopes the new Scientific Integrity Fund—the first of its kind—will make speaking up about wrongdoing less intimidating. The fund comes after a spate of cases in which high-profile scientists have retracted papers after whistleblowers made allegations of research fraud.
“As scientists, we need to be able to ask questions and raise concerns about other researchers’ work, without the risk of being sued, or going bankru...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 5, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Dengue is raging in Brazil. A promising local vaccine is at least a year away
When dengue started to circulate in his small town in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, Fabio Vilella’s first thought was that he should get his 13-year-old son vaccinated. Children are especially vulnerable, and his son had dengue before, which increases the risk of severe disease. But Vilella, an environmental biologist, soon made a startling discovery: Not a single private clinic or pharmacy in the country had any vaccine left. “I’m really worried,” he says.
Brazil is seeing an unprecedented surge in dengue, a viral disease that can cause excruciating pains and is sometimes fatal. An unusually hot ...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 5, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Illume Fertility Joins Senator Richard Blumenthal in News Conference Urging Congress to Pass Federal Protections for Infertility Treatment
Physicians and Advocates Share Personal and Professional Testimony NORWALK, Conn., March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Illume Fertility, a leading modern fertility practice with locations in Connecticut and New York, appeared alongside U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and other... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
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The State Of Global Fertility
South Korea broke its own record when it announced this week that as of 2023, its fertility rate had fallen to just 0.72 births per woman. The rate at which a population replaces itself between generations without migration stands at around 2.1. As Statista's…#katharinabuchholz #statistain #southeastasia #westafrican #niger #worldbank #somalia #chad #congo #africa (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Giant blow for tissue maker Kleenex as lawsuit accuses company of polluting entire Connecticut town with cancer-causing PFAS chemicals
Locals in New Milford, Connecticut - about two hours from New York City - say the company's plant has been releasing these substances which have been linked to cancer and infertility. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
