June 2011

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• Infertility, Surrogacy

  Best Friends Endure Pregnancy by Surrogacy

  06.21.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  In western Massachusetts, one woman is carrying a baby for her best friend, who has a disease that would make pregnancy dangerous. Every year, an estimated 1,300 babies are born in the United States to gestational carriers — women who bear a child from the egg and sperm of another couple. Only a small percentage [...]

• Infertility

  Sweden: Daughter Gets Transplant of Mother’s Womb

  06.14.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sara Ottosson, who was born without a uterus, will undergo an experimental procedure to have her mother’s uterus transplanted into her, according to a BBC News report. She could be the first woman to give birth to a baby using the same womb in which she was conceived and carried to term. Read the full [...]

• Egg Donation, Infertility

  Egg Freezing: Putting the Biological Clock on Hold?

  06.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Clinics in the U.S. have long frozen fertilized eggs, or embryos. But eggs alone are more delicate and prone to damage. Over the years, egg freezing has been offered mainly to cancer patients facing radiation, but success rates were pretty dismal. Of late, though, the technology has exploded thanks to scientific leaps, including a flash-freeze [...]