A Catholic school in Indiana fired a teacher for undergoing fertility treatments, calling it a "grave, immoral" sin.
Adrienne Arieff went through three miscarriages before she learned she was unable to carry a child. Her search for a solution brought her to India, where she found a woman willing to carry her and her husband's embryo in a controversial practice known as foreign gestational surrogacy.
A new study says implanting three or more embryos during IVF increases health complications.
Women undergoing in-vitro fertilization should have only one or two embryos transferred during the process, depending on their age, says a study published Wednesday in the British medical journal The Lancet. Transferring three or more embryos during any IVF cycle should be avoided when possible, researchers say.
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin discusses the implications of the "personhood" amendment to the Mississippi state constitution.
In the Carpenter home, every meal begins with a prayer. Robin and his wife, Emily, are devout Christians. But they part ways with many other Christians over a measure that would expand the legal definition of human life.
As an infertility specialist, the first, and sometimes hardest, thing I have to accomplish is to assess a couple's understanding of how the whole getting pregnant thing -- naturally or otherwise -- works. Despite widespread sex education and increased public awareness of the issue of infertility, many people still don't really get it; a study from New Zealand, for instance, showed that 74% of women presenting to a fertility clinic had inadequate fertility awareness.
Giuliana Rancic underwent a double lumpectomy on Tuesday as part of her breast cancer treatment, her husband Bill Rancic said Thursday on the Today show.
Giuliana Rancic said Monday that she has breast cancer, having discovered a tumor during a mammogram while undergoing another round of in-vitro fertilization in an effort to get pregnant.
Elizabeth Cohen, senior medical correspondent, discusses Giuliana Rancic's cancer diagnosis and the dangers of IVF.
Ginny Bank was 14 when her mother sat her down and said they needed to see a gynecologist.
After studying in the UK, Dr. Richard Ajayi returned to Nigeria in 1999 to set up the country's first IVF treatment clinic.
In-vitro fertilization is growing fast in Nigeria, a country where childlessness can be seen as a social failure, especially for women.
Two men share the pain of struggling with their wives' infertility.
"Hey, did I tell you my old girlfriend's pregnant?"
Rumors of struggle to conceive shot down by Shania Twain's rep
As one of the nation's leading fertility experts, Dr. Jamie Grifo is barraged with phone calls requesting advice. He thought he'd heard it all until a few weeks ago when callers started asking him a completely new question.
An official with the Vatican criticized the decision to award the Nobel prize for medicine to British doctor Robert G. Edwards for his work on in vitro fertilization, Italy's official news agency ANSA reported Tuesday.
Brendan Harley beat cancer once as an infant, then faced leukemia as a teen. He survived, but the illnesses left him infertile and feeling guilty.
The E! Host, who got pregnant with IVF, reveals how she and her husband dealt with the devastating loss
Barely able to sit up due to intense pain, first-time mother Bhateri Devi steadies herself with the help of a family member. She has had a Cesarean section, an experience many women have endured.
How old is too old to use fertility treatments? CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
"It's stressful but I'm relaxing," says the singer, who's carrying twins. "I do almost nothing"
In a PEOPLE cover story, the singer speaks candidly about her grueling fertility treatments
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.
New technology can screen embryos for genetic disease, but, controversially, it also allows parents to choose their baby?s gender.
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"
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"
CNN's Emily Chang reports couples in China how use traditional Chinese medicine and Western technology to treat infertility.
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 Spanish woman who gave birth to twins at 66 has died nearly three years later. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
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?
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.
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
STDs and teens
updated: Mon Mar 30 2009 12:37:00
Some teens may be unaware that STDs can cause infertility, as CNN's Judy Fortin reports.
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.
California state senator wants to regulate fertility clinics
Nadya Suleman's father urges the public not to "punish" his daughter for having 8 babies
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen looks into the case of the octuplet mom and how many embryos should be implanted.
Dr. Jane Miller remembers the first -- and the last -- time she implanted four embryos into a patient getting in-vitro fertilization.
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.
CNN's Joe Johns reports doctors say octuplets born to a California couple are doing well.
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
Fertility clinics are reporting an increase in women wanting to donate eggs for money. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
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.
Fertility tipsupdated: Mon Apr 14 2008 09:56:00
Lifestyle changes may help improve a woman's fertility as Judy Fortin reports in this Health Minute.
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.
The stem-cell breakthrough doesn't make up for six years of hypocrisy and lost research
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.
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
Time.com: Banking on Stem Cellsupdated: Tue Jun 05 2007 10:00:00
A California company now offers IVF patients the option of creating and storing their own stem cells
Money Magazine: Baby or Bustupdated: Mon May 01 2006 00:01:00
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.
CNNMoney: Barcodes on babies?updated: Wed Mar 30 2005 12:04:00
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.
FSB: 2nd Placeupdated: Mon Nov 01 2004 00:01:00
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.
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...
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...
LIKE ALL MY friends, I thought that when we started trying to have a baby it would just happen.'' So says Nancy Ameen today, four years after she and her husband, Toby Hoden, decided it was time to...
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...
© 2013 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
|