Medical economics
Sperm donation is largely unregulated, but that could soon change as lawsuits multiply
When Wendy and Janet Norman decided to have a baby, they went sperm shopping through Xytex Corp., a sperm bank.
Jan 19, 2022
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News tagged with sperm banking
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Long duration of sperm freezing makes no difference to live birth rates in large sperm bank study
Despite a time limit imposed in many countries on the freeze-storage of sperm, a new study from China has found that the long-term cryopreservation of semen in a sperm bank does not affect future clinical outcomes. Results ...
Jun 24, 2019
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Health
Sex sells: How masculinity is used as currency to buy sperm donors' time
Sperm banks in the United Kingdom and Australia use images and phrases associated with masculinity to attract donors because laws prohibit them from paying for sperm.
May 20, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Sperm banking is underutilized by adolescent and young adult cancer patients
A comprehensive study of adolescent and young adult cancer patients found just 43.8 percent of those at risk for infertility banked sperm prior to cancer therapy, suggesting that patients might benefit from efforts to increase ...
Oct 4, 2017
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Dutch IVF kids seek DNA tests from late sperm bank doc
A group of Dutch people born through IVF treatment demanded on Tuesday that DNA tests be done on the late head of a sperm bank who according to reports may have fathered up to 60 children.
Apr 25, 2017
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Young and well educated men in demand as sperm donors in global life market
With commercial sperm banking giving women more opportunities to become mothers, a world-first QUT study has found the age and education of sperm donors are the most important characteristics considered.
Jul 7, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dutch open their first 'poop bank' to treat gut diseases
After blood and sperm banks, Dutch researchers have now opened the country's first "poop bank" in a rare and cutting-edge branch of medicine to treat people with chronic gut infections.
Feb 15, 2016
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Couples needing sperm donation favor the same donor for all conceptions
Despite a prevalence of anonymous sperm donation in European countries, the use of the same sperm donor for subsequent conceptions is of paramount importance to those couples needing sperm donation to have children. "We found ...
Jun 16, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
New strategies needed to encourage male cancer survivors to consider future fertility
Pioneering research presented at the Fertility 2013 conference today (Thursday 3 January 2013) shows that a large proportion of male cancer patients are missing out on appropriate fertility advice.
Jan 3, 2013
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Health
Fertile sperm donor draws criticism from FDA, docs
(AP) -- Physicians and the federal government cited the case of a San Francisco Bay area man who has fathered 14 children as an example of the risks posed by the informal market for sperm donations, which doctors consider ...
Dec 20, 2011
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