Winter Philosophy in Lavasa

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently [...]

Student Braves Controversy, Refuses to Recite Pledge

“Liberty and justice for all?”
Will Phillips doesn’t believe that describes America for its gay and lesbian citizens. He’s a 10-year-old at West Fork Elementary School in Arkansas, about three hours east of Oklahoma City. Given his beliefs, he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, specifically because that one phrase, “liberty and justice for all,” [...]

Cutting Edge in Gynecological Endoscopy – The MOGS Indo-Israeli Live Surgical Workshop & Conference

The MOGS Live Surgical Workshop on the Cutting Edge in Gyneacological Oncology was held on 14 November 2009. Cases were performed at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel and relayed live to the ITC Grand Grand Central, Parel, Mumbai. In the morning session, there was a demonstration [...]

Moving surrogacy law forward in the UK?

Of all the prospective parents conceiving through assisted reproduction, those in surrogacy arrangements often face the most difficult legal issues. The surrogate and usually also her husband will be treated as the child’s legal parents at birth, leaving the commissioning parents with no legal connection with their child whatsoever, even where both are the biological [...]

The MOGS-FPAI Avabai Wadia Indo-Israeli Workshop & Conference on Contraception

The MOGS FPAI Dr Avabai Wadia Memorial Workshop on Contraception was held on 26 September 2009. Cases were conducted at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion and relayed live to the Regus Convention Center, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai.
The Workshop was held in two sessions. In the morning session, there was [...]

The MOGS Indo-Israeli Workshop & Conference on Fetal Diagnosis & Intervention

Shalom & Namaskaar! The MOGS Indo-Israeli Year is well on its way with the second clinical meeting creating waves in the Ob-Gyn community in India. We had a star-studded faculty from both India & Israel. Prof Israel Shapiro is the President of the [...]

Accelerated fertility treatment leads to shortened time to pregnancy and cost savings

A major new trial recently published in the journal Fertility and Sterility shows that for couples beginning infertility treatments, an accelerated path to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) can offer a shorter time to pregnancy, cost savings of nearly $10,000, and a lowered risk of multiple births.
For the first time, these results demonstrate that the long held [...]

Lord Winston, Labels Egg Feezing As “Expensive Confidence

Lord Winston, emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London and pioneer of IVF, has criticized fertility clinics for over-hyping egg freezing services. In an interview with the Daily Mail newspaper he accuses providers of creating false optimism in the effectiveness of the procedure particularly where signing up patients for purely ’social’ reasons. Before [...]

Baby Oliver is now a Beacon of Hope for IVF patients

A British woman has become the first in the world to give birth using a new IVF test that promises to improve the chances of parenthood for infertile couples.
A boy, named Oliver, was born in July to a 41-year-old woman who had tried 13 cycles of IVF without success. She conceived after her eggs were [...]

US company offers celebrity ‘look-a-like’ sperm

A California-based fertility company is offering prospective parents a range of celebrity ‘look-a-like’ sperm donors. Cryobank, which is also planning to offer services in New York, allows customers to search through a database according to characteristics such as ethinicity and eye colour without revealing donors’ photographs. In addition, the company has now added features that [...]