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- Human Egg Donations Debate
- Questions of ethics have arisen over the donation of human eggs by cash-strapped women. Erica Hill speaks with various specialists and a young unemployed actress who has donated her eggs for money.
- Videos 2009-04-15
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- Danes to send sperm to alleviate feared British shortage
- COPENHAGEN AFP — A large Danish sperm bank said that it had been asked to provide sperm for fertility treatments on ships in international waters outside Britain, which could face a sperm shortage next year. "We have been contacted by foreign doctors who have asked us to deliver sperm...
- Research articles 2005-09-19
- Clinics offering gender selection with fertilization; Doctors claim patented method separates sperm to produce desired sex.(Brief Article)
- Dr. Andrew Y. Silverman paid the men painting his Westchester County house $25 apiece to leave semen samples in his bathroom. He used the samples to practice a technique for separating boy-producing sperm from girl-producing sperm in his obstetrics Dr. Andrew Y. Silverman paid...
- Research articles 2000-12-11
- Sperm counts have dropped by a almost third in 10 years: British study
- LONDON AFP ? Male sperm counts have fallen by almost a third since 1989, with factors such as drinking and obesity possibly to blame, according to a British study. A survey of 7,500 men who attended the Aberdeen Fertility Centre in northern Scotland between 1989 and 2002 brought alarming...
- Research articles 2004-01-04
- Sperm counts have dropped by a almost third in 10 years
- LONDON AFP ? Male sperm counts have fallen by almost a third since 1989, with factors such as drinking and obesity possibly to blame, according to a British study. A survey of 7,500 men who attended the Aberdeen Fertility Centre in northern Scotland between 1989 and 2002 brought alarming...
- Research articles 2004-01-05
- Shanghai sperm bank falls short on quality
- SHANGHAI AFP — Fast and stressful living in China's most developed city Shanghai has health officials fretting about the declining quality of residents' sperm, state media said. Recent tests at the Shanghai sperm bank showed that good sperm is shrinking fast due to unhealthy, stressed-out city lifestyles, including the...
- Research articles 2005-03-28
- Trout lend sperm to sterile salmon
- WASHINGTON AFP — Japanese scientists helped infertile salmon sire baby trout by lending them trout sperm, a technique that could save endangered species, according to research published in the United States Thursday. The scientists injected sperm cells from adult rainbow trout into the salmon, enabling the sterile fish then...
- Research articles 2007-09-13
- Be a role model and donate sperm, Australian clinic tells legislators
- MELBOURNE, Australia AFP — An Australian fertility clinic is seeking to make up its shortfall of sperm donors by appealing to legislators' sense of public spirit. The Melbourne clinic, Monash IVF, has written to Victoria state MPs pointing out that a change in the law in 1998 had led...
- Research articles 2005-01-13
- China to send pig sperm into space
- BEIJING AFP — China plans to take semen from pedigree pigs on its second manned space mission to study whether exposure to outer space alters the genetic make-up of the sperm. Some 40 grams of pig sperm will be carried on board the spacecraft Shenzhou VI when it blasts...
- Research articles 2005-07-17
- China bans sale of human eggs, tightens control over sperm banks
- BEIJING AFP — China has banned the sale of human eggs and tightened rules for sperm banks to boost control over the nation's rapidly expanding fertility business, according to state media reports. The health ministry had outlawed "egg donation and supply for commercial purposes," the Xinhua news agency reported....
- Research articles 2006-04-09
- Sperm banks near empty after donor anonymity lifted
- LONDON AFP — British clinics treating couples with fertility problems are suffering from a major sperm shortage after the authorities lifted donor anonymity in April last year. A BBC television investigation said that 50 of the 74 clinics which responded to questioning had either insufficient sperm or none at all....
- Research articles 2006-09-25
- Taxman gives Danish sperm bank a headache
- COPENHAGEN AFP — One of the world's largest sperm banks, Denmark's Cryos, said it feared recent changes to tax laws requiring donors to declare income from their contributions would put their anonymity at risk and lead to a fall in donations. "The tax authority has introduced new rules that apply...
- Research articles 2006-12-06
- 21-year-old sperm yields British baby
- LONDON AP -- A British woman has given birth to a baby boy using sperm from her husband that was frozen 21 years earlier, their doctor said. Dr. Elizabeth Pease, a consultant in reproductive medicine at St. Mary's Hospital in Manchester where the baby was born two years...
- Research articles 2004-05-27
- 12 tonne sperm whales die after stranding on New Zealand beach
- AUCKLAND AFP ? A pod of 12 sperm whales, some 10 metres long and weighing up to 12 tonnes, have beached themselves on Auckland's west coast and died. The whales, thought to be mostly females with a young calf, were stranded over a five kilometre three mile stretch of...
- Research articles 2003-11-16
- US to turn gays away from sperm banks
- WASHINGTON AFP ? The US government said it would ban homosexuals from making anonymous donations to sperm banks, in the name of preventing transmittable diseases, in a move swiftly condemned by gay rights groups. New Food and Drug Administration rules that take effect May 25 require agencies that collect...
- Research articles 2004-05-20
- British baby conceived from sperm frozen 21 years earlier
- LONDON AFP ? A British woman has given birth to a healthy baby using sperm from her husband which had been frozen for 21 years in what is believed to be a record for fertility treatment, scientists said. Researchers from St Mary's Hospital and Christie Hospital, both in Manchester,...
- Research articles 2004-05-24
- Baby conceived using 21-year-old frozen sperm
- LONDON AFP ? A woman has given birth to a healthy baby using sperm from her husband which had been frozen for 21 years in what is believed to be a record for fertility treatment. Researchers from St Mary's Hospital and Christie Hospital, both in Manchester, said Tuesday that...
- Research articles 2004-05-25
- 19 sperm whales stranded on Australian island
- SYDNEY, AFP — More than a dozen large sperm whales may have died in a beaching incident on Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, local wildlife rangers said. A pod of 19 sperm whales became stranded in rough weather on Tasmania's west coast and poor conditions hampered rescue efforts,...
- Research articles 2004-12-26
- Scientists unscramble sperm-egg fusion in fertility breakthrough
- PARIS AFP — Japanese researchers say they have identified a vital protein which enables a sperm to fuse with an egg, a discovery that could one day lead to new treatment for infertile men as well as new forms of contraception. The protein, on the sperm's surface, is synthesised...
- Research articles 2005-03-09
- Israel moves to stop Rabin killer getting sperm to wife
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israel has ordered warders guarding the killer of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to prevent him getting sperm to his wife after denying him permission to father children by artificial insemination. Yigal Amir, who is serving a life sentence for the 1995 murder, had sought permission for...
- Research articles 2005-08-28
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