Infertility News Around the Country- Carefully Chosen!
Posted by Lisa Rosenthal on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 @ 10:17 AM
Every single day there are hundreds of articles reporting on different aspects of infertility, treatment and things associated with the two. Here are a few articles that I felt were timely, and I hope, of interest to you, with short comments from me.
Infertility treatment for the future? Removing a two year old’s
ovary in the hope that twenty years or so from now that she will be able to have children, why not? This child is going to undergo medical treatment that may render her infertile. Why not give her a chance for the future, especially with technology that has been used successfully in other situations? FoxNews reports on Monday, July 19...
“The plucky, 2-year old Brooklyn girl is set to become the youngest person ever to undergo a fertility procedure when a New York doctor removes one of her ovaries Tuesday and freezes it while she undergoes treatment for a serious immune disease."
Moving onto a more personal piece-
A beautiful, touching tribute from a mother 
with a fourteen year year old daughter, to the woman who donated the egg. How feelings can evolve is poignantly expressed here. How precious is that gift, fourteen years later. From the Huffington Post...
"What began as my ambivalence about having another woman's baby has alchemized into a purity of love for both Olivia and Angel Cate, and I realize the longer I love Olivia, the more indebted to Angel Cate I become.”
In the courts in Wisconsin, a decision is overturned-
A triumph for gestational surrogates in Wisconsin, where why and how you got pregnant determined whether you could receive health care. The Supreme Court in that state has overruled lower court rulings against this bias. Let’s hope that influences any other state with similar rulings.
“Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg said the ruling supports his department's view that insurance companies can't discriminate against women based on the reasons they got pregnant.”
And research about the success of IVF from the west coast-
New research that could predict IVF success in the future, for you specifically. Interesting to see the research that is being done on the west coast, regarding IVF success for individual prognosis. Here is a quote from the article published in Science Mag on July 19:
"In an attempt to bring hard numbers into IVF forecasting, Yao and colleagues collected data on over 50 variables that influence the success of the treatment. 
These included figures known before the start of IVF, such as age, number of previous pregnancies, and sperm count, and figures known after the completion of the first round of IVF, such as whether there was fertilization, endometrial thickness, and average number of cells per embryo. In all, the researchers fed data on over 1600 first-round IVF procedures from patients treated at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics."
I opted out on writing about any screaming headlines and chose what appears to be responsible journalism. Interesting to see how much there is out there, often hard to sift through what's pertinent and relevant.
What do I know for sure? As long as there are people trying to create families, we'll get to read about it in the news.