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October 6th, 2011
12:48 PM ET
Maria Menounos' plans for her embryosLast week, entertainment celebrity Maria Menounos made news when she announced she plans to freeze her eggs for future use. But in an interview with CNN, Menounos clarified that she's actually freezing embryos, not eggs. Fertility doctors will make the embryos by fertilizing her eggs with her boyfriend's sperm in a lab. The resulting embryos will then be banked until the couple wants to use them to start a pregnancy. The difference between freezing eggs and freezing embryos is significant. Women who freeze their eggs usually do it because they don't have a partner and they're concerned their eggs will be too old by the time they find one. Menounos, on the other hand, has a boyfriend, writer/producer/director Keven Undergaro. 
 Kelly Preston became pregnant at 47, although she hasn't said whether or not she used IVF.
July 15th, 2011
10:06 AM ET
What the Yuck: Are celebs more fertile than the rest of us?Too embarrassed to ask your doctor about sex, body quirks, or the latest celeb health fad? In a regular feature and a new book, "What the Yuck?!," Health magazine medical editor Dr. Roshini Raj tackles your most personal and provocative questions. Send 'em to Dr. Raj at whattheyuck@health.com. Are celebs more fertile than the rest of us? How come so many are able to have babies in their mid- and late 40s? You've stumbled onto one of Hollywood's "Dirty Little Secrets": donor eggs and in vitro fertilization (IVF). While being famous can get you far in life, it doesn't extend the warranty on your ovaries. It just gives that A-lister greater access to cutting-edge fertility treatments and doctors that the rest of us may not know about or be able to afford. 
April 14th, 2011
04:56 PM ET
Relax! The Zsa Zsa-baby thing won't happenYou probably saw the headlines Thursday about 94-year-old actress Zsa Zsa Gabor becoming a mother. Sounds like a miracle of modern science, right? Wrong. There are a bunch of significant problems with the whole scenario that make it, in the end, just another sensational Hollywood tale that won't actually happen. 
March 24th, 2011
04:54 PM ET
Mouse study may offer hope for infertile menAfter decades of failure, researchers have managed to create fertile sperm in a laboratory, raising hopes for infertile men. “I think for everyone in the field, especially for the potential patients, it’s quite exciting,” says Martin Dym, a professor of biochemistry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. 
December 21st, 2010
11:52 AM ET
Fewer teens are giving birth; C-section rate at an all time highFewer teen girls had babies in 2009 than in previous years, according to statistics released today by the Centers for Disease Control. The report also finds that fewer American women overall are giving birth. The report, compiled by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, is based on birth records collected in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Among the highlights: 
December 20th, 2010
12:01 AM ET
C-sections up, overall births down in 20084,251,095 babies were born in the United States in 2008, according to the latest statistics provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is about 2% fewer than in the previous record-setting year. But about a third or 32.3% of these newborns came into this world by way of cesarean sections – a 2% increase – which marks the twelfth consecutive year that the number of c-sections has gone up. Each year the American Academy of Pediatrics publishes an “annual summary of vital statistics” that compiles a variety of data. For example, in 2008: FULL POST 
November 19th, 2010
09:36 AM ET
Different touch urged for young cancer patientsDoctors need to recognize that young cancer patients are different from older individuals. To help, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) launched a new program on Wednesday designed to help educate physicians on how to better treat this patient population. The program, called Focus Under Forty, is a joing effort between LIVESTRONG and ASCO. It teaches oncologists how to improve treating cancer patients between the ages of 15 and 39. 
October 28th, 2010
03:01 AM ET
BPA may reduce sperm count
Add another potential problem to the list: A new study of Chinese factory workers suggests that very high levels of BPA exposure may decrease sperm count and contribute to other sperm-related problems in men.
October 11th, 2010
04:01 PM ET
October 5th, 2010
08:48 AM ET
Could mom's gastric bypass surgery put babies at risk?
More American teens are getting gastric bypass surgery. A small, but provocative study presented this week at the national conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests there may be a link between gastric bypass surgery in teen girls and an increased risk of neural tube defects in their babies. Dr. Diana Farmer, surgeon-in-chief at Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco, and her team started connecting the dots after a teen mother came to the hospital's fetal treatment center. The fetus had spina bifida, a condition where a portion of the neural tube fails to develop or close properly. The mother had recently undergone gastric bypass surgery. Intrigued, Farmer did some research and found six additional cases of babies born with neural tube defects in mothers who recently had gastric bypass surgery. |
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