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Fertility clinics are round-the-clock operations, with women coming and going seven days a week for estrogen-monitoring and egg retrieval. The weekend after a California woman gave birth to octuplets, traffic was steady at the Duke Fertility Center in Durham, N.C. Susannah Copland, who oversees Duke's in vitro fertilization (IVF) program, was on call and noticed that "everyone was buzzing about the octuplets." Some patients were shocked, others unnerved. "I don't want eight babies," they told her. "And we don't want you to have eight babies," she responded...
...Suleman already has six children under the age of 8--and a physician's. In June, just about the time those eight babies began growing inside her womb, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) issued updated guidelines on the number of embryos that should be transferred to a woman's body in the hope they'll implant in the uterus and lead to a live birth. Women under 35 should transfer no more than two embryos, down from the maximum of three recommended in 1998, and women over 40 should attempt no more than five...
...other fertility doctors contend that reproductive medicine is among the most regulated specialties in the U.S. Clinics have to report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the number of embryos transferred in each IVF cycle--in which sperm and egg are fertilized outside a woman's body then transferred to her uterus--as well as the resulting number of live births. This reporting system was set up to help potential patients assess their chances of having a baby but has evolved into a way to monitor a clinic's number of triplets and higher multiples, who are more...
...followers attempt to rebuild a life that was stolen from them. Having fled into the forest after the death of their parents, the four Bielski brothers discover that they share their refuge with many other Jews from the surrounding towns. Tuvia refuses to leave a single man, woman, or child helpless in the forest, causing their community of survivors to grow. The Bielski brothers—soon called “The Bielski Otriad” by their companions—are burdened with the responsibility of sheltering, feeding, and protecting all of the people. Zus and Tuvia struggle with...
...Even with the diversity of the audience, the highlight of the festival is still very much the films (“Not movies!” as someone screamed to a woman on the shuttle one day). The first and probably most poignant one I saw was “Bronson,” which stylistically told the true story of England’s “most violent criminal.” The performance was a tour de force by lead Tom Hardy, and the combination of his intense acting with a loud soundtrack of Wagner...