Blog posts from March 2010

Gonorrhoea: Possible 'Superbug' Status

30 March, 2010

ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — The rise of multidrug resistance in gonorrhoea-causing bacteria is threatening to make this sexually-transmitted infection extremely difficult to treat. Professor Catherine Ison, speaking at the Society for Gen...

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Confessions of a Sperm Donor

28 March, 2010

‘The nurse handed me a plastic jar and led me to a small room. There was a TV showing a porn film...’Hospital workers hustle past, oblivious. They’ve seen it a thousand times. I’m standing outside the delivery room, a newbo...

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Woman learns she CAN be a mother using Google...after 20 years of being told she can't have children

26 March, 2010

Julie Cameron was just 15 years old when doctors told her she would never have children. The distraught teenager was diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome, an extremely rare condition that meant she was born without a womb, cervix...

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Gay friendly? MPs lag behind in Britain

24 March, 2010

The equality bill, with its provisions for churches to host civil partnerships, has cracked Westminster's veneer of toleranceAnyone would think there's an election on the horizon. Jubilant Labour activists are delighted that David Cameron ...

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Egg donation - Donors are in short supply

22 March, 2010

Doctor's Diary: James Le Fanu from the Telegraph looks at the complex issue of egg donationThe prospects for women wishing to have children but unable to do so because their ovaries cannot produce eggs are compromised by the limits of human ge...

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Women ready for motherhood at 14 claims leading author

18 March, 2010

Women are ready for motherhood at 14, claims a leading author. What dangerous nonsense, says this former teenage mum.Watching my daughter Olivia and her friends preparing to celebrate her 15th birthday last week, the bathroom awash with false lash...

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The role of the father has been downgraded

16 March, 2010

Legislation has effectively dismissed the contribution of half the population to the upbringing of the next generation, says Ruth Deech, the chairman of the Bar Standards Board.Over the last half a century there has been a sea change in society&rs...

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Mother’s Day for Two Mums

14 March, 2010

Do you ever wonder what mother’s day is like in a house with two mums?In a home with lesbian parents raising children, the emphasis is on Mother’s day being about ‘Mothers’ or parents rather than on an individual.Mother&rsq...

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Eating fatty diet during early pregnancy increase chances of having a boy

12 March, 2010

Eating breakfast and fatty diet during early pregnancy increases chances of having a boyWhat women eat while they are in the early stages of pregnancy influences the sex and health of their unborn baby, new research suggests.Women who eat a full b...

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Donate sperm - "Sperm donation - have you got the balls?"

10 March, 2010

Sports players and fans are being targeted in a campaign to get more sperm donors to help couples struggling to conceive.The National Gamete Donation Trust wants to increase the number of new donors in the UK to about 500, from its latest figure o...

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