When Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets in January 2009 the news was greeted with amazement around the world.
Genetic screening techniques that allow parents to choose their children's gender are now more accurate than ever and are becoming increasingly mainstream, but experts are divided over whether the technology should be used in this way.
Ashley Price felt terrible. She was tired, dizzy spells came and went, dark splotches popped up on her chest for no reason, and she'd gained 50 pounds in two years. Some days she was starving; other days she could barely eat. Her doc suggested that her problems would go away if Price just ate less and exercised more, even though she was dieting and working out regularly. Price demanded thyroid tests, only to have them come back normal.
Dr. Michael Kamrava was expelled from a reproductive group for "a pattern of failing to uphold [ethical] standards"
The doctor who implanted six embryos in octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman last year has been expelled from a fertility medical society, a spokesman for the group said.
On a cold morning in February, 10 days after undergoing in vitro fertilization, Carolyn Savage lay in bed at her Ohio home waiting for the results of her pregnancy test.
By the time she was in her 40s, Andrea Cinnamond was afraid she'd never be a mother. Then came the day in 2005 her daughter was born through in vitro fertilization, followed two years later by twin sons. Today, Kaitlin, Jack, and Aidan bounce around like Ping-Pong balls through their Boston, Massachusetts, home.
The singer's doctor speaks out about the IVF journey that has his patient feeling "ecstatic"
Although infertility treatment is becoming more and more popular in China, finding a Chinese couple who wanted to talk about it on camera was nearly impossible.
The average American woman can live long enough to celebrate her 80th birthday, so if a woman is able to become pregnant using in vitro fertilization with a donor egg at 56, she could still watch her child grow into an adult. But just because it's possible, does that mean she should?
When Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets in January 2009 the news was greeted with amazement around the world.
Genetic screening techniques that allow parents to choose their children's gender are now more accurate than ever and are becoming increasingly mainstream, but experts are divided over whether the technology should be used in this way.
Ashley Price felt terrible. She was tired, dizzy spells came and went, dark splotches popped up on her chest for no reason, and she'd gained 50 pounds in two years. Some days she was starving; other days she could barely eat. Her doc suggested that her problems would go away if Price just ate less and exercised more, even though she was dieting and working out regularly. Price demanded thyroid tests, only to have them come back normal.
Dr. Michael Kamrava was expelled from a reproductive group for "a pattern of failing to uphold [ethical] standards"
The doctor who implanted six embryos in octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman last year has been expelled from a fertility medical society, a spokesman for the group said.
On a cold morning in February, 10 days after undergoing in vitro fertilization, Carolyn Savage lay in bed at her Ohio home waiting for the results of her pregnancy test.
By the time she was in her 40s, Andrea Cinnamond was afraid she'd never be a mother. Then came the day in 2005 her daughter was born through in vitro fertilization, followed two years later by twin sons. Today, Kaitlin, Jack, and Aidan bounce around like Ping-Pong balls through their Boston, Massachusetts, home.
The singer's doctor speaks out about the IVF journey that has his patient feeling "ecstatic"
Although infertility treatment is becoming more and more popular in China, finding a Chinese couple who wanted to talk about it on camera was nearly impossible.
The average American woman can live long enough to celebrate her 80th birthday, so if a woman is able to become pregnant using in vitro fertilization with a donor egg at 56, she could still watch her child grow into an adult. But just because it's possible, does that mean she should?
A Spanish woman -- who at age 66 gave birth to twins -- has died less than three years later, a local official and a family member told CNN Thursday.
Things seemed to be going so well. Alex Rodriguez was in virtual seclusion in Colorado, then Florida. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were neither seen nor heard, and Zack Greinke and Ryan Zimmerman were reminding everyone that baseball still held the power to surprise and amaze for all the right reasons. And then came news that Manny Ramirez had failed a drug test, instantly calling into question the legitimacy of his statistics and of the Dodgers' red-hot start that had been fueled by a player who was fueled, at least in part, by a female fertility drug. Perhaps worst of all, it turned the focus of this week's mailbag back to the dreaded topic of performance-enhancing drugs.
Manny Ramirez apologized to his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates on Friday after being suspended for 50 games for using a banned drug.
Why stars like Dennis Quaid, Angela Bassett, Joan Lunden and others have gone this route
After years struggling with infertility, the George Lopez actress is over the moon about daughter Luna Marie
Twins? Triplets? Octuplets? Sounds like a lot of stress to handle more than one baby at once.
Doctors don't have to tell 18-year-old "Rose" (who doesn't want to reveal her real name) the importance of using a condom every time she has sex.
The tabloid-friendly tale of the California "Octomom" continues to stir debate -- this time 2,000 miles away in the Georgia state capitol, where lawmakers say they're trying to prevent a repeat.
California state senator wants to regulate fertility clinics
Nadya Suleman's father urges the public not to "punish" his daughter for having 8 babies
Dr. Jane Miller remembers the first -- and the last -- time she implanted four embryos into a patient getting in-vitro fertilization.
The mother of octuplets, whose story has sparked controversy around the world, rejects suggestions that she may not be able to care adequately for all 14 of her children and that her decisions have been selfish.
The birth of octuplets to a California woman last week raised a boatload of issues that can distract us from the central ethical question posed by the case: How do we take children's well-being into account in reproductive medicine?
Angela Suleman says her daughter is "obsessed" with having children
As more details of the mother who gave birth to octuplets come to light, ethicists are debating the moral quandaries involved.
Jeff Walker says from as far back as he can remember, he always wanted to be a father.
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that infants born as a result of assisted reproductive technology, or ART -- such as in vitro fertilization and the use of donor eggs -- are two to four times more likely to be born with certain types of birth defects than infants conceived naturally. But, the study's lead author says, the overall risk is still relatively low.
A growing body of research suggests that men's fertility declines as much as -- if not faster than -- that of women
With a full load of classes, two young children and her bills piling up, Michelle decided to face her economic straits in a pretty unorthodox way.
Pamela Madsen knows a thing or two about getting pregnant. She did it twice, and it took several teams of doctors, six rounds of artificial insemination, six rounds of daily injected drugs, and four rounds of in-vitro fertilization.
It's a double dose of joy for the first-time parents, whose two girls are due this winter
A new study highlights four fertility measures that may better predict a couple's chances of conceiving through IVF
British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, according to a senior British lawmaker.
Dr. Anne Nedrow gets the e-mails every day -- e-mails from women patients linking to Web sites of dubious quality.
Dutch researchers are developing a blood test that could predict the onset of menopause and the decline of fertility
Kelli Heath just turned 30 and she's spending more and more time deflecting questions from family and friends about when she plans to get pregnant.
Whoever wins the White House, stem cell biotechs stand to reap the benefit from an incoming leader who is friendlier to stem cell researchers than President Bush, and that could lift stocks for the entire sector, experts say.
The stem-cell breakthrough doesn't make up for six years of hypocrisy and lost research
Colorado could become the first state to vote on whether embryos should be considered people. Nationwide, however, the anti-abortion movement appears to be fracturing
Some IVF clinics came under fire this week for marketing egg-freezing services to young women who may want to postpone motherhood until they are ready.
Think being an actress over 40 is a challenge? Try having a baby, says Helena Bonham Carter.
Before Kate and Gerry McCann became known as the parents of a missing 4-year-old girl named Madeleine, they were simply a pair of doctors with three kids: Madeleine and twins Amelie and Sean.
Research into a chemical found in the immune sytem shows that male infertility could one day be an easy home diagnosis
Doctors have removed eggs from young female cancer patients and -- for the first time -- brought the eggs to maturity before freezing them
A California company now offers IVF patients the option of creating and storing their own stem cells
It's the day before Jennifer Witt is scheduled to start treatment for in vitro fertilization, and she's in a panic. It's not only the prospect of the medical procedure that's worrying her, or even ...
It's a plain fact that Americans are living longer than ever before. Life expectancy is now at a record 77.6 years.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a British woman has no right to use frozen embryos to have a baby without the consent of the man who provided the sperm.
Matthew and Beth Mandolesi told their doctor that they would be happy with a boy or a girl but wondered if there was a way to increase the odds that it would be a boy.
Assisted reproduction, in least in Europe, may be moving closer to the era of one-at-a-time babies.
Having already given birth to two girls, Soledad O'Brien was ready for another addition to her family last winter. Yet she and her husband, Brad, were in for a surprise when, several months into her most recent pregnancy, her doctor told her she had not one, but two babies, on the way.
After impassioned debate, the House passed a controversial bill Tuesday that would expand public funding for embryonic stem cell research -- a measure President Bush threatened to veto last week.
Married with two children, Melissa Devereaux is like many mothers, but a difference that may have set her apart decades ago is now increasingly common. Devereaux, 40, is of "advanced maternal age."
LONDON (Reuters) - Sperm and eggs from couples trying for a test-tube baby could in future be barcoded to avoid emotionally devastating mix-ups, according to Britain's human fertility watchdog.
Earlier this month, Illinois judge Jeffrey Lawrence refused to dismiss a wrongful death suit against a fertility clinic in Chicago. The plaintiffs are a couple, Alison Miller and Todd Parrish. They allege that the defendant, the Center for Human Reproduction in Chicago, discarded their nine embryos and thereby ended the embryos' lives.
Can using a laptop computer make a man infertile?
Just three days shy of her 57th birthday, Aleta St. James has given birth to twins.
A 57-year-old New Age mystic is pregnant and could tie the record for the oldest American to give birth to twins.
WHAT IT DOES: Helps young women freeze their eggs
Last month, Susan Buchweitz recovered a million dollars in a settlement with a fertility clinic. Doctors at the clinic had mistakenly given her an embryo intended for another family.
An experimental fertility treatment transferring part of a woman's egg into another's raised hopes among millions of infertile Americans, but U.S. government concerns about the procedure's safety have forced those seeking it to travel to other countries.
Amber Low spent more than six years struggling to get pregnant, trying fertility drugs and surgery. In a desperate build-it-and-they-will-come hope, she and her husband, David, even constructed a h...
Amber Low spent more than six years struggling to get pregnant, trying fertility drugs and surgery. In a desperate build-it-and-they-will-come hope, she and her husband, David, even constructed a h...
Alana West had had enough. West, an actress and set costumer, had spent years in infertility treatments and was on the brink of taking the next step, in vitro fertilization. But as she stood in the...
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This fall, the annual ritual of picking a health plan will be more challenging than ever. Set aside, for a moment, people's heightened sense of financial vulnerability since September's attacks on ...
Infertility specialists are constantly searching for new ways to lend nature a hand in the baby-making process. These days they seem most excited by a procedure called intracytoplasmic sperm inject...
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Remember Murphy Brown? She is the TV sitcom character castigated nearly two years ago by then Vice President Dan Quayle for giving a good name to out-of- wedlock birth. She is affluent, glamorous -...
One possible, if perhaps slightly distasteful, way to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with Japan: Sell them babies fathered by Japanese and gestated in American wombs. New York City's Infertility Cen...
Time was when following a career path was like climbing a ladder. Rung by rung, you ascended in a succession of orderly steps, each one with added responsibility, pay, status and, you hoped, satisf...
On New Year's Day three years ago, Seymour Fenichel, a Manhattan lawyer, called Judy and Michael Vezzuto of Wantagh, N.Y. with fantastic news: the childless couple were about to get a baby. The law...
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