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How Canada’s fertility laws are failing donors, doctors, and parents
by Alison Motluk
Illustration by Emily L. Eibel
In the spring of 2006, Heather Cox got an unexpected phone call from a Toronto fertility clinic. Three years earlier, she had donated eggs anonymously to a gay couple through the clinic. Now the same couple wanted a full

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On the website privatesperm.com, a 48-year-old civil engineer/songwriter/composer/music producer named Randy, who describes himself as having genius-level intelligence, offers his sperm to Canadian women who want to have children. But not through artificial insemination. “Natural method only,” he writes. On freespermdonor.com, a 53-year-old man who is disease-free and has a PhD offers his sperm

Dr. Hannam’s interview

Why is it that Canada, a country of 12 million adult men, has only 33 sperm donors to supply its thousands of infertile couples? That’s the question being asked by some fertility doctors as many couples look elsewhere for help growing their families. Read more…

A new fertility treatment may some day help women left infertile by cancer treatment to have children.
Researchers at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Cornell University in New York published a study of the new treatment in Tuesday’s online issue of the journal The Lancet.
In the study, a 30-year-old American woman was successfully

Male biological clock starts ticking faster at 35
A new study suggests men have a biological clock that starts ticking around the age of 35.
The French study, which involved more than 12,000 couples undergoing fertility treatments, found that miscarriage rates started to climb once men reached their mid-30s. more…

Fertility doc says pregnant man case not abnormal
A Canadian fertility doctor is breaking a widely sensationalized story down to science basics, saying the experience of the so-called pregnant man who reportedly gave birth to a healthy baby girl last Sunday, is just a simple medical case. more…