As wake-up calls go, this one was hard to beat. Thérèse Dion was asleep in her room at the five-star Hotel Le Bristol in Paris, where she had gone to film episodes of the cooking show she hosts on Canadian TV, when the phone rang at 7 a.m. on Jan. 25. On the line, more [...]
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June 11, 2009
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Tel Aviv Nights, But Were Afraid To Ask!
Let me tell you a fascinating bed-time story:) The story of my night out with Erez & Evyatar (my guides) exploring the night life in Tel Aviv, last month. This was a unique new tour [...]
June 6, 2009
A Cancer Patient Fathers a Child After 22 Years
A man who had his sperm frozen whilst undergoing treatment for leukaemia as a teenager, has, at 38, become the father of a healthy baby girl. Christopher Biblis from Charlotte, North Carolina, was 16 when he underwent radiotherapy treatment which would have left him sterile had his doctors not recommended he have his sperm frozen [...]
April 1, 2009
The Presidential Address at the 56th AGM of the Mumbai Obstetric & Gynaecological Society
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.
The best because our chosen profession has and is progressing by leaps and bounds and leading the medical world into new fields of research, therapy and hope.Assisted reproduction today is a highly advanced field and practitioners are doing what no one believed was possible.We [...]
March 19, 2009
First Israeli gay man gets ‘maternity’ leave
The National Insurance Institute authorized Israel’s first-ever “maternity” leave for a male couple on Thursday. Yonatan Gher, director of Jerusalem’s nonprofit Open House Pride and Tolerance organization, has received institute approval of a 64-day leave from work on the occasion of the birth of his biological son, born of a surrogate mother in India. His [...]
February 11, 2009
First the Biopsy, then The Baby
A common medical procedure may be the key to helping couples who’ve had no luck with artificial insemination and IVF. Could a common uterine biopsy make pregnancy “stick” for women having trouble conceiving? A small but growing number of couples are embracing an unusual use of biopsies during infertility treatments in the belief that they [...]
December 24, 2008
Single men turning to surrogates
NEW YORK (CNN) – Jeff Walker says from as far back as he can remember, he always wanted to be a father.
Walker decided to father a second child through surrogacy after he and his parner split. The result: Alexandra.
“It was always something I knew, from the time I was a child.” Just like his 3-year-old daughter, [...]
December 16, 2008
British surrogacy ruling saves baby twins from Ukraine orphanage
A British couple this week won custody over a pair of twins born to a
surrogate mother in the Ukraine. The twin babies were caught in a legal
loophole whereby the expectant British couple were unable to bring the twins
into the UK, as they were not recognised by English law as the parents.
Simultaneously, the Ukrainian biological mother [...]
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