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Which of these or half a dozen other procedures a specialist will call upon depends largely on the reason a patient or couple is infertile. For Anita and Vincent Bielicki, both Chicago police officers, the problem was in Vincent's sperm. Before turning to more elaborate measures, the couple tried several courses of therapy, in which Anita took ovulation-stimulating drugs (a la Bobbi McCaughey) and fertilization was to occur inside the body...
Like most couples, the Bielickis and the Burskis didn't need the newest assisted-reproduction therapies. That's just as well: these procedures have not entered the mainstream of clinical practice. Some, including R.B.A.'s egg-freezing technique. may never do so. A second patient in the Atlanta clinic is pregnant thanks to a frozen egg; so, reportedly, are three women in Italy, and births have previously been reported in Australia, Germany and Italy. But the success rate is still very low--only two births in 23 tries in Atlanta, so far--and the technique is expensive. So R.B.A...
...Nobody's tried it in 70- or 80-year-olds yet," says Dr. Richard Paulson, head of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Southern California, where Keh was a patient, "but at present there's no evidence of an upper age limit." Inevitably, the prospect of using their own eggs, frozen years before, rather than a donor's genetically foreign eggs, will only increase the number of older women who want to give birth...
...around me, people murmured that I must be patient, that modern medicine would make it happen in time. But I lacked the fortitude--optimism? attitude of surrender?--required for indefinite treatment. Within months, even the act of entering a pharmacy and purchasing an ovulation-predictor kit had become a painful trial. As the disappointments accrued, each procedure felt less a celebration of potential life than a small death...
...questions. He's too busy. He just turned down an offer to star in the next film by Ang Lee, who directed the Oscar-nominated Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm. That was so he could do the next film from the Oscar-winning director of The English Patient, Anthony Minghella. Damon will play the title role in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Minghella's adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel about a charming con man driven to murder. Until recently, scripts sent to him had multiple sets of fingerprints on them; this one came straight from Tom Cruise...