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...drug and then switching to the more powerful Metrodin. Neither she nor Kenny wanted to wait a year this time, so she went on Metrodin right away--though, on Hauser's advice, at a lower dose. But while doctors can carefully control the number of embryos they insert with in-vitro fertilization, fertility drugs are basically a roll of the dice...
...presidency of George Washington. And since 1978, when the world's first test-tube baby was born, researchers have assembled a battery of medicines and high-tech procedures that have utterly transformed the treatment of infertility. More than 33,000 babies have been born in the U.S. thanks to in-vitro (literally, "in glass") fertilization, or IVF--nearly 7,000 in 1994 alone, the most recent year for which numbers are available...
...panel's recommendations will disappoint many, including supporters of in-vitro fertilization. Several experts told the committee that cloning might be the only chance for many infertile couples to have their own genetically related children. That argument didn't persuade the commissioners, however. Their report concluded that "these cases are insufficiently compelling to justify proceeding with the use of such techniques...
Parental intervention can still save some of these barely visible blobs of protoplasm, and last week a few did get last-minute reprieves. But despite the best efforts of clinic officials, the majority of these "parents"--couples who had donated egg and sperm in an attempt at in-vitro fertilization (IVF)--cannot or will not be located. Without word from the parents within five years, British law requires that the embryos be destroyed. And so, after last-ditch appeals to the courts and Prime Minister John Major failed, the clinics began dumping the eggs and embryos like so much abandoned...
...trust fund of earnings from TV projects and the book written by her parents. Brown is a firm believer in the technique that brought her into the world. She told the Daily Mail: "I want to have my own children, whatever it takes. I would use the in-vitro method if I couldn't have a baby...