March 26, 2025
(BBC) – Many fertility patients in the UK are being offered unnecessary add-on treatments that have little or no proof of improving the likelihood of pregnancy, a report suggests.Add-ons are optional, non-essential treatments some private clinics offer in addition to … Read More
March 25, 2025
(New York Times) – On June 24, 2022, the same day the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, I received a call from the fertility clinic where I’d been undergoing in vitro fertilization, informing … Read More
March 19, 2025
(Undark) – Fertility clinics should provide easy access to mental health support for those undergoing IVF treatments. Although literature from my fertility clinic acknowledged that in vitro fertilization would be stressful on the body and mind, those words did not … Read More
March 18, 2025
(WTOP News) – A northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the court saying such fertilized eggs could be considered divisible “goods or chattel” based on 19th-century slave law. … Read More
March 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Abortion bans successfully prevented some women from getting abortions in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a detailed new study of birth data from 2023. The effects were … Read More
March 10, 2025
(ABC News) – Mishaps may be rare, but families who experience them face unimaginable consequences. Wolf says that at the crux of the issue is a need for more regulation to prevent and track mistakes, and better enforcement in the … Read More
March 7, 2025
(NBC News) – Losing a baby late in pregnancy is more common in the South than in other regions of the United States, according to a new report given exclusively to NBC News. The difference is dramatic: Compared with other … Read More
March 6, 2025
(USA Today) – As the need for out-of-state care rapidly increases, abortion clinics and funds caution that even in protective states, the infrastructure is under strain. With fewer healthcare centers to turn to, people have to travel further for care, … Read More
March 5, 2025
(New York Times) – The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth. Researchers scanned the brains of dozens of women in the weeks before and after childbirth and … Read More
March 4, 2025
(New York Times) – As China’s government worries about the falling birthrate, some private employers have ordered workers to do their part, or else. Last year, 6.1 million Chinese couples got married — a 20 percent decline from a year … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Axios) – Black and Hispanic people paid more in out-of-pocket costs for maternal care than Asian and white people with the same commercial insurance, a new study published in JAMA Health Forum found. Why it matters: Black mothers in the … Read More
February 28, 2025
(CNet) – With a pregnancy study and a smarter cycle-tracking approach, Oura is delivering more accurate health insights If you track your health with wearable tech, you’ll know that pregnancy and menstrual cycles have long been limited in the insights … Read More
February 26, 2025
(The Guardian) – GenBioPro seeks to defend access to mifepristone in suit brought by attorneys general of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas The manufacturer of the generic version of a major abortion pill has asked to join a federal lawsuit over … Read More
February 24, 2025
(Independent) – Would-be parents seeking out commercial foreign surrogacies are being warned the government may fight their bids for adoption, rendering the infants both permanently stateless and legally parentless. A High Court case revealed a “self-centred” older UK couple – … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Politico) – ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they … Read More
February 20, 2025
(The Verge) – The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects. The Verge sought out legal documents and … Read More
February 19, 2025
(New York Times) – “The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing audience members to pass out. Since opening last summer for a short run at the Almeida … Read More
February 19, 2025
(NPR) – President Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday evening with the goal of expanding access to and lowering the cost of the infertility treatment known as IVF, or in vitro fertilization. The order directs Trump’s assistant for domestic policy to … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Newsweek) – A woman filed a lawsuit against a fertility clinic in Georgia after she was given another couple’s embryo. Krystena Murray lost custody five months after delivery, despite wanting to keep the child, according to the lawsuit. This is … Read More
February 18, 2025
(JAMA) – In this issue of JAMA, 2 articles characterize the impact of recent state abortion restrictions. Applying observational causal inference methods, the authors estimate a 1.7% increase in birth rates from abortion restrictions in affected states (corresponding to about 22 000 excess … Read More
February 18, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Her doctor informed her of the condition he suspected her baby might have and told her, “Don’t google it.” Unsurprisingly, that didn’t stop her. In fact, she writes, the more medical information that doctors produced—after weeks … Read More
February 17, 2025
(SciDevNet) – Poor regulation and lack of transparency in Africa’s fertility industry leave sperm donors and recipients vulnerable to exploitation and unethical practices, including relatives unwittingly having children together, fertility experts warn. Consanguinity, referring to where biological relatives conceive children … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Daily Mail) – A few years ago, Britain’s first commercial surrogate mother, Kim Cotton, joined one of those ancestry DNA sites. It’s not a step you’d take if you wanted to keep the past firmly in the past, and yet, she says, … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Deseret News) – Surgical sterilization is on the rise among young American women during a global fertility crisis. What are unintended consequences of the decision? While elective sterilization is a personal decision, it is not without societal costs, particularly in … Read More
February 14, 2025
(New York Times) – It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights who send abortion pills to states with bans. In a case that could have major … Read More
