Reproductive Technologies News
Freezing the tick tick tock of the biological clock
2011-01-17
VANCOUVER SUN
Forty-three of Mamta Shah's eggs hang in suspended animation at a fertility clinic in Montreal. The eggs were extracted from Shah's ovaries when she was 36 and single, flash frozen using a Canadian-pioneered egg freezing technique and sunk in liquid nitrogen at -196 C. Now 41 and married, Shah is ready to have a baby.
Women delay childbirth due to false fertility expectations
2010-10-13
NATIONAL POST
Women are delaying childbirth until later and later in life partly because they have an exaggerated belief that fertility treatments will help them get pregnant well into middle age, suggests new Canadian research.
Alberta urged to cover cost of in vitro
2010-07-26
CALGARY HERALD
Calgary in vitro advocates hope the province will follow Quebec's example and cover the cost for the pricey fertility treatment.
Experts seek to slash multiple birth rate
2010-06-09
NATIONAL POST
Canadian fertility specialists have agreed they should slash the number of multiple births triggered by reproductive treatments, citing the serious medical problems and steep costs associated with twins and other multiples.
Baby by stealth: Reproduction law forcing 'dangerous alternatives'
2010-03-11
NATIONAL POST
At the same time as reproductive technologies stretch the notion of the family beyond the nuclear, and just as Canada bends to accommodate that evolution, a prevailing piece of federal legislation is being accused of inadvertently forcing a slew of prospective parents underground.
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