Oct 23 Watch 10:15 From IVF to twins, a wounded vet and wife lean on each other By PBS News Hour Two years ago, what this couple wanted most was to start a family, but daunting physical and financial challenges stood in their way. William Brangham revisits Jason and Rachel Hallett, who struggled with the aftereffects of a grievous war injury… Continue watching
Aug 02 U.S. scientists are fixing genetic defects in human embryos. Should you be nervous? By Nsikan Akpan For the first time, U.S. scientists have genetically edited human embryos with CRISPR, thanks in part to regulatory loopholes. Continue reading
May 21 Can poppyseed oil help infertile couples conceive? By Kate Sheridan, STAT Flushing fallopian tubes with a poppyseed oil-based solution may help a woman to conceive, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Continue reading
Apr 09 Hawaii LGBT couples seek equal access to fertility treatment By Cathy Bussewitz, Associated Press A measure would make Hawaii the first state to require insurance cover vitro fertilization for surrogates, which would help some male same-sex couples. Continue reading
Jan 22 Trans patients, looking for fertility options, turn to cancer research By Corinne Segal There are an estimated 1.4 million trans Americans, and physicians told the PBS NewsHour Weekend that demand is increasing for health care specific to them. Many doctors are confronting the issue of fertility among trans communities. Continue reading
Jan 05 The nation’s birth rate declined in 2015, new data says By Laura Santhanam Research shows women gave birth to nearly 4 million babies in the U.S. in 2015, down 1 percent from a year earlier. This is a small, but noteworthy drop. Continue reading
Dec 30 Column: Why you can’t fry eggs (or sperm) with a cellphone By Timothy J. Jorgensen for The Conversation Do male cellphone users really risk infertility due to radiation?… Continue reading
Dec 10 Trump win could boost movement to confer ‘personhood’ on fertilized eggs By Rebecca Robbins, STAT The push to confer full “personhood” on every fertilized human egg has been rejected in state after state, but activists are cautiously hopeful that their cause could soon get a boost. Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch 7:54 Wounded vets can’t get help with in vitro fertilization costs By PBS News Hour U.S. military veterans who are having trouble starting families due to combat injuries do not get financial assistance from the V.A. for in vitro fertilization, leaving couples to pay for the costly treatments themselves. Efforts made in Congress to change… Continue watching
Feb 03 UK House of Commons passes controversial three-person fertility treatment By Carey Reed Should doctors be allowed to exchange bad genes for good ones in order to produce a healthy baby?… Continue reading