fertility treatments

Winnipeg Free Press - February 12, 2007

Canadian Study Finds Fertility Treatments Raise Birth Defect Risk

Researchers studied 61,208 births in Ontario during 2005, including 1,394 that resulted from fertility treatments. They looked at rates of birth defects and adjusted estimates of risk to reflect differences in the mothers' ages, whether they smoked, the sex of the babies, birth complications and other factors. Studies have been divided over whether they increase the likelihood of birth defects. The Canadian work is important because it's a large study and quantifies the risk of specific birt...

Winnipeg Free Press - September 07, 2008

Palin's Gender Won't Sway Women

Yes, [Sarah Palin] is likable. Spunky even; the kind of woman you'd enjoy knowing because she could hold an interesting conversation, retell an interesting experience, and also offer a tip on where to buy a great pair of shoes. She's obviously accomplished as a local and state politician, a loving wife and mother. All laudable attributes. Palin is 44. With many women now marrying and having children later in life, and with many able to afford the tremendous cost of fertility treatments, the o...

Canada Gazette, November 14, 2007

Food and Drug Regulations (1476, 1502, 1511 and 1512 — Schedule F) — Regulations Amending

Part II - Official regulations

... (Project 1502) It is used together with follitropin alpha for injection for fertility treatment in hypogonadotropic hypogonadal (HH) ...... It is used to treat patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors, a rare type of stomach cancer, where other treatments have not worked. It is also used to treat ...

Federal Court - June 04, 2008

Canada (Attorney General) v. Buffett, 2007 FC 1061 (2007)

... He ruled out another possibility, a male fertility drug, Clomid, as not being suitable in Mr. ...... [26] By way of remedy it ordered: if the Buffetts’ specialist continued to recommend IVF with ICSI, the Canadian Forces were to fund the treatments to a maximum of three cycles; b. payment of $7,...

Winnipeg Free Press - December 14, 2007

Trouble Conceiving?

Their findings suggest certain foods and lifestyle factors can significantly affect hormone levels and improve fertility in women with ovulation problems -- a common cause of infertility, says Dr. Jorge Chavarro, lead author of the study, which was published last month in Obstetrics & Gynecology. "I'm so happy that this paper came out," says [Fady Sharara]. "I've been telling my patients for years that you have to change your diet. I personally believe that this is very important for many...

Winnipeg Free Press - February 07, 2009

Unnatural Families

To be fair, most physicians engaged in assisted reproduction in North America are ethical and adhere to voluntary guidelines preventing such ghastly outcomes. The number of transferred embryos is limited for IVF, and the administration of fertility drugs monitored carefully to reduce multiple births. Pregnancy rates rise with the number of embryos transferred, but so does the risk of multiple birth. There are no legislative limits on the number of embryos that can be transferred in IVF in Can...

Federal Court - June 04, 2008

Sorokin v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2006 FC 368 (2006)

... not marry in Israel and therefore had to seek fertility treatments at a private rather than a public ...... The Board also held that the Adult Applicants had chosen to donate the wife's eggs to cover the cost of a fertility treatment, and access to such treatment is not a ...

Winnipeg Free Press - January 23, 2010

Infertility Issue Must Be Examined

The logic is there, although it is skewed -- no woman is forced to heighten her chances or her risks in IVF -- and it helped convince an Ontario panel, which last year recommended that province should fund up to three IVF cycles for the infertile. It said government could use its funding to pressure clinics to dramatically cut the rate of multiple births. Ontario so far funds IVF only for women with blocked fallopian tubes. Quebec has moved to pay for repeat IVF treatments. Belgium, Sweden, D...

Winnipeg Free Press - May 13, 2009

Province Pressured On in Vitro

"My mother passed away and I took some of my inheritance and paid for one course of IVF," said one 35-year-old woman who had her first course of in vitro in March. "But that cycle didn't work and now I'm in a boat where I have to figure out how to finance the second." "I have to do it while I'm still young and it's a challenge because it's hard to explain how emotional and painful it is (to not conceive).SDRq "It's a very difficult situation for women who want to conceive and cannot, so I'll ...