Chrissy Teigen wishes people would stop asking her about her womb. When she’s ready to share the details of her family plan, she’ll tell us. How about we give her the chance to do that?
As we exit another Memorial Day weekend full of solemn paeans to The Troops, the Washington Post reminds us that the Veterans Affairs Administration still won’t cover in vitro fertilization for injured returning veterans. The ban has been in place for nearly a quarter century, and it’s there to protect fertilized…
What if you were a woman who was having trouble getting pregnant and your doctor told you there was a way he could "freshen up" your eggs using mitochondria from some of your other eggs to "replace that lost energy"? Yes, this reality exists—in Canada.
Research by Louise Stewart at the University of Western Australia shows that there may be a link between early in vitro fertilization and breast cancer later in life, thanks to the collection of data on 21,025 women between 20 and 40 between 1983 and 2002.
File this under "Future Very, Very Rich People Problems" — a British medical panel ruled today that a method of in vitro fertilization that seeks to eliminate inherited genetic diseases by introducing a third set of DNA to the mix is ethical as long as it's safe and effective. And as long as all parties agree on…
Chicago native Ellie Lavi's attempts to obtain citizenship for her twin daughters has gotten caught on the snaggle-tooth of America's bureaucracy, with the U.S. State Department refusing to grant the children citizenship because Lavi, who used donor sperm and egg from an Israeli clinic, can't prove that either of the…
Researchers found IVF patients who use donor eggs and their own uterus usually have smaller babies than surrogates who carry an infertile woman's embryo, leading doctors to conclude uterine environment may be more important than egg quality for healthy babies.
A British doctor is allegedly circumventing the UK's laws against sex-selective fertility treatments by referring patients to a clinic in Cyprus. So is he doing anything wrong?
When Bettina Paige used fertility treatments, she wanted one more child — not two. And so when she conceived twins, she considered selective reduction — a process that challenges our usual view of reproductive choice.
• Sad, sad news: Going Rogue beat Hillary Clinton's memoir in sales with 700,000 to Clinton's 600,000. However, the awesome Secretary of State received a much bigger advance of $8 mil, while Palin was only offered five. •
Janine and Jason Macallister have been unsuccessfully trying to have a child for many years. Janine decided to look into fertility treatments—and was deemed "ineligible" because Jason already has two biological children of his own.
Scientists have found evidence that adult women have stem cells in their ovaries that let them generate more eggs, challenging the long-standing belief that women are born with a fixed number of ova.
Slate's William Saleten is all over the IVF-regulation beat. Today, he follows up on the Georgia bill that was an ill-disguised effort to confer personhood on cell clusters. It was amended, but still has issues.
With the news that Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor has another patient expecting quadruplets, many are calling for new regulations on fertility treatments. But will these regulations unfairly penalize women?
Hot on the heels of NYC socialite Alex Kuczynski's surrogacy overshare in the New York Times Magazine comes news that the majority of women who have undergone in vitro fertilization do not want to share their extra eggs. According to the Times, "53 percent did not want to donate their embryos to other couples, mostly…
Ed Houben of the Netherlands has gained a reputation as Europe's most passionate sperm donor for fathering 46 children without having sex. Houben donated at an IVF clinic at first, but had to stop once he reached his quota of 25 gifts. Now people find him on the internet and through word of mouth. Houben has traveled…
