August 6, 2025
(NPR) – China imprisoned the scientist, He Jiankui, for three years for violating medical regulations. Fast forward to today: Mainstream scientific organizations are encouraging very careful basic research to explore gene-editing and human reproduction. But they still warn any attempts … Read More
August 6, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A couple with ties to China say they wanted a big family. Surrogates who carried the children say they were deceived. Local authorities removed the children from the homes, placed them in foster care, and called … Read More
August 6, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Thaddeus has taken the title of “world’s oldest baby” from the previous record-holders: twins Lydia Ann and Timothy Ronald Ridgeway, born in 2022, who developed from embryos that were created 30 years earlier, in 1992. Before … Read More
August 4, 2025
(USA Today) – The White House has no current plans to mandate insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization, despite President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to expand access to fertility treatments, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. Trump signed an executive … Read More
August 1, 2025
(NPR) – Nearly one in five pregnant women and new moms in this country suffers from anxiety and depression. And 6-8% of pregnant women are prescribed a group of antidepressants called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). But a recent expert … Read More
July 30, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Nineteen states now ban abortion at or before 19 weeks of gestation; 13 of those have a near-total ban on all abortions with very limited exceptions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonpartisan research group that … Read More
July 30, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26, developed from an embryo that had been in storage for 30 and a … Read More
July 29, 2025
(New Medical) – People who are gestational carriers (or “surrogates”) appear more likely to be diagnosed with a new mental illness during and after pregnancy, according to new research from ICES, McGill University, and the Research Institute of the McGill … Read More
July 29, 2025
(NPR) – Chubb is a community organizer in a state with some of the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality in the country. She says a birth center is badly needed here — Augusta, Ga., is surrounded by maternal … Read More
July 28, 2025
(Washington Post) – The first-of-its-kind wrongful-death lawsuit tests the laws blue states passed to protect abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. A Texas man whose girlfriend used abortion pills to end her pregnancy is suing a … Read More
July 28, 2025
(NPR) – A stockpile of family planning products — including IUDs, implants and pills — worth $9.7 million has been stuck at a warehouse in Belgium since the administration dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and froze foreign … Read More
July 25, 2025
(NHPR) – The new law specifically addresses people with medical conditions who want to get sterilized for their reproductive health. New Hampshire is the first state to legally require doctors and medical staff to follow a patient’s desires to seek … Read More
July 25, 2025
(Medical Xpress) – People who are gestational carriers (or “surrogates”) appear more likely to be diagnosed with a new mental illness during and after pregnancy, according to new research from ICES, McGill University, and the Research Institute of the McGill … Read More
July 22, 2025
(New York Times) – In June, lawmakers in my native country, Britain, approved plans to legalize assisted suicide. If the bill becomes law, England and Wales will join more than a dozen countries and 11 U.S. states in permitting medically … Read More
July 22, 2025
(Scientific American) – A hormone-free pill, called YCT-529, that temporarily stops sperm production by blocking a vitamin A metabolite has just concluded its first safety trial in humans, getting a step closer to increasing male contraceptive options When it comes … Read More
July 22, 2025
(New York Times) – Clinical trials had found that the drug, zuranolone, marketed as Zurzuvae and taken daily for 14 days, can ease symptoms for some women in as little as three days, while general antidepressants can take weeks. For … Read More
July 21, 2025
(The Free Press) – A thousand miles from New York City, the place I call home, there’s a clinic that vows to help women with ‘unexplained infertility.’ I traveled there last year, in my quest to become a mother. Revolutionary … Read More
July 18, 2025
(Nature) – Families with three or more boys, for example, are more likely to have another boy than a girl as the next child. In families with several children of the same sex, the odds of having another baby of … Read More
July 18, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – A UK team announced the births of eight babies born with DNA from three people. But around the world, others have already been born. This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the … Read More
July 18, 2025
(New York Post) – She did think it was a little strange that the organization said it had already chosen a Chinese couple to be the parents of the baby she would eventually sign up to carry. “I didn’t have … Read More
July 18, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Local governments in China have tried mostly in vain to lift the country’s shrinking birthrate with perks, cash rewards and housing subsidies. Now, the central government is stepping in. Beijing plans to pay a basic national … Read More
July 18, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Facing government pressure and massive budget shortfalls, the group is increasingly torn between its healthcare mission and progressive advocacy. As it faces this potentially dire future, Planned Parenthood is also contending with an identity crisis that … Read More
July 17, 2025
(Washington Post) – Investors say genetic prediction services for embryos, used by Elon Musk and others, are a trust fund for future children. Many scientists are skeptical. Siddiqui is a rising starin the realm of fertility start-ups backed by tech … Read More
July 16, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Eight babies have been born in the UK thanks to a technology that uses DNA from three people: the two biological parents plus a third person who supplies healthy mitochondrial DNA. The babies were born to … Read More
July 16, 2025
(Mother Jones) – “Are you sure you’re going to be able to do this?” a doctor asked Heather Watkins shortly after she gave birth to her daughter. Watkins, who has muscular dystrophy, had developed preeclampsia and had to be induced … Read More
