Clients Can Select A Sperm Donor Based On Astrological Signs, Favorite Pets and More FAIRFAX, Va., May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Finding the perfect sperm donor just got easier, thanks to Fairfax Cryobank's new donor search tool, which allows potential clients to search by lifestyle criteria (including astrological signs, favorite songs, life goals, favorite pets and favorite subjects in school), as well as by traditional physical and educational standards. The search tool's "Basic" option allows potential users to search by donor type, ancestry, blood type and phenotype. The "Advanced" search allows clients to search by ethnicity, skin tone, CMV status, specimen type or photos. The new "Lifestyle" option allows potential users to search based on the sperm donor's personal preference...
Next year's Academy Awards program ought to have a new category: Best Portrayal of a Sperm Donor. At least, that's the role that's being cast with increasing - and alarming - frequency. First came the cinematic summer hit "The Kids Are All Right," the story of a lesbian couple who have each given birth to a child using sperm from the same donor. Reaching their teen years, the children want to meet their biological father (whom the moms only call "sperm donor"). The kids track him down, and some predictable family drama ensues, including a romantic tryst between donor-dad and one of the women. (Oops! Make that "womyn.") But in the end, it's affirmed that this nontraditional family is simply A-OK.
A woman who purchased sperm from a cryogenic bank can't learn the identity of the sperm donor, a Massachusetts appeals court has ruled in affirming dismissal of the woman's paternity and child support action. In Doe v. New England Cryogenic Center, a United States citizen living in London purchased sperm from a cryogenic bank in Massachusetts. The cryogenic bank contracts with sperm donors made it clear that donation was anonymous and that their identity would be kept "in strictest confidence." But the woman claimed that the director assured her that the donor would be pleased to have contact when the children were born.
SAN FRANCISCO - A man from the San Francisco Bay area has fathered 14 children in the past five years through free sperm donations to women he meets through his website - and now is in trouble with the federal government. The case of Trent Arsenault, of Fremont, has drawn attention to the practice of informal sperm donation, which physicians and bioethicists call unsafe but some people say is a civil liberties issue.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently highlighted the case of a sperm donor who had 24 children, nine of whom became sick with an inherited heart condition. One child, 2, died. Dr. Kirk M. Maxey is chairman of the board of directors for the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR), a nonprofit organization that serves donor-conceived individuals and families. Dr. Maxey is also a former sperm donor who has met two of his biological daughters, and founder of Cayman Biomedical Research Institute, a nonprofit organization that offers genetic testing.
CHICAGO - A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according to a medical journal report. Two children, both now teenagers, have developed symptoms and are at risk for sudden cardiac death, the report says. It's the second documented instance of a genetic condition being inherited through sperm donation.
Is it custom-designing a baby in the image of your favorite celebrity? The next logical step of the evolutionary desire for attractiveness? A silly result of sperm-donor anonymity rules? Or all that and more? The Los Angeles sperm bank that began a celebrity- inspired Donor Look-a-Like service has raised eyebrows and hackles among champions and critics of artificial insemination. California Cryobank launched the service in late July to allow clients to search for donors who best resemble certain actors, artists and athletes.
Many adults born from a sperm donor constantly look for their "dads" and worry about dating someone who is a biological sibling. Ten percent say they felt like a "freak of nature. Still, 61 percent of sperm-donor-conceived adults support the practice of assisted reproduction - and 20 percent have already donated their own sperm or eggs or been a surrogate mother.
[...] advances in reproductive technology have made it possible for many infertile coupies to conceive and bear children.16 In these cases, surrogacy has become a more traditional method.17 There are three types of surrogacy arrangements: traditional surrogacy, gestational surrogacy, and donor surrogacy.18 Traditional surrogacy is an arrangement where a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the sperm of the husband or partner of the infertile woman.19 The surrogate carries the fetus to term and then relinquishes parental rights to the natural father and intended mother.20 In traditional surrogacy, the intended mother has no genetic connection with the child.21 As the second type of surrogacy arrangement, gestational surrogacy involves retrieving the intended mother's egg and...
medical news Heart failure drug ignored CHICAGO -- Most hospitalized heart failure patients are sent home without widely recommended inexpensive pills, despite a program to get more doctors to follow treatment guidelines, a study suggests. Only one-third of 12,565 patients eligible for the drugs got them. AIDS vaccine is of modest help Fresh results from the world's first successful test of an experimental AIDS vaccine confirm that it is only marginally effective. The results also hint that the vaccine may work better in the general population than in those at higher risk of infection. CHICAGO - A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according to a medical journal report.
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