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...some women's health advocates say that evidence isn't strong enough, calling for further study and a national, trackable registry of egg donors. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) logs the number of donated eggs transferred to infertile women each year - there were some 15,500 in 2006, the most recent year for which data are available - no one knows how many individual donors those eggs came from, who they were or whether they were exceeding industry guidelines of six donations in a lifetime. (The guidelines are intended to limit the number of offspring from...
...Right now egg donors are treated like vendors, not as patients. Patients need to be followed up," says internist Jennifer Schneider, who has been advocating for the government to track egg donors since 2007, a few years after her daughter, a three-time egg donor, died of colon cancer at age 31. "After the first few days of being discharged from the IVF clinic and seeing that there were no immediate consequences, they are never contacted again...
...thing the fertility industry and some of its harshest critics appear to agree on, however: the need for an egg-donor registry. If there were a centralized repository for donor records, Ginsburg and Schneider believe, patient follow-up and long-term studies could be conducted. But the challenge is settling on the right kind of registry. After consulting with the ASRM, in January, advocates in the fertility industry founded a nonprofit voluntary registry of egg and sperm donors. It is still unclear who will pay for it, how it will work and what role the ASRM will play in maintaining...
...Earlier this year, Austrian authorities began decommissioning all cotton swabs manufactured by Austrian company Greiner Bio-One International AG after they had made a similar discovery, with a different mysterious DNA donor. On Thursday, several German states admitted to using that same brand of cotton swab. An investigator from the state of Baden-Württemberg told Bild newspaper: "The things were double-packaged; we thought they were the Mercedes of cotton swabs." But the Austrian manufacturer hurried to declare Thursday night that "Greiner Bio-One cotton swabs are not certified for DNA analysis...
...continue to assist the authorities through policy advice," the fund said in a statement on Wednesday, after its team finished a two-week visit to the poverty-stricken country. But "technical and financial assistance from the IMF will depend on establishing a track record of sound policy implementation, donor support and a resolution of overdue financial obligations to official creditors, including the IMF." Zimbabwe owes the IMF and other institutions more than $1 billion...