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Jon Bilous/ShutterstockPayout (per donation): usually $8,000 to $14,000Egg donation allows people whose ovaries do not produce healthy eggs to become pregnant using another person's donated eggs. At the NYU Langone Fertility Center in New York City, the compensation per egg donation cycle today is exactly $10,000 and includes a free medical screening. Weill Cornell Medicine outlines the standard steps for egg donation, which requires about a four-week time commitment. During the donation cycle, patients are injected with fertility drugs so that their ovaries make more eggs. You should be aware of the risks involved in the egg donation process before signing up.

☆ Pandemic lockdowns linked to decline in U.S. twin births, study suggests
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Shawana Alleyne-Morris | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File PhotoDec 7 (Reuters) - Reduced access to infertility treatments early in the pandemic may have contributed to a drop in twin births, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest. Overall, twin births did not rise significantly in 2021 from 2020 levels, although rates began to increase near the end of the year. The largest decline in twin births was seen in women over age 40, the group most likely to use infertility treatment. The smallest decline was in women under age 30, who are least likely to use infertility treatment, the authors said. The study cannot prove pandemic lockdowns caused twin births to decline.

“Embryo adoption is not a legal ‘adoption’ at all, at least in the sense of a traditional adoption which occurs after birth,” the National Embryo Donation Center says. Risks of multiplesSoutheastern Fertility, which partners with National Embryo Donation Center, thawed the embryos February 28. There’s about an 80% survival rate when thawing frozen embryos, experts say. I have to have them all.”Philip and Rachel Ridgeway had twins born from embryos that were frozen for about 30 years. Studies have found that 25% to 40% of frozen embryo transfers result in a live birth.

And Black women are often in their late 30s or early 40s when they start, older on average than white women. Black women are also twice as likely as white women to have fertility challenges, according to a 2008 study in Fertility and Sterility. He suggested that insurance coverage, awareness of the “biological clock” and partners’ attitudes toward fertility treatment may all play a role. Regina Townsend via Broken Brown Egg‘The myth assigned to us’National data identifying racial disparities in fertility care only recently became available when Seifer published his 2007 study. Doctors’ lack of knowledge about racial disparities in fertility treatment doesn’t surprise Townsend.

☆ Babies born to Black mothers who use fertility treatments die at far higher rates than those born to white mothers
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Aria Bendix | Aria Bendix Is The Breaking Health Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Babies born to Black mothers are twice as likely to die in the first month than infants born to white women. That death rate was 1.6% among babies born to Black mothers, compared with just 0.3% for babies born to white mothers. Death rates were twice as high among newborns of Asian, Pacific Islander and Hispanic mothers who used fertility technologies compared with babies born to white mothers. Black women are also twice as likely to have stillbirths or preterm births than white women, according to Lisonkova's study. Indeed, Black women in the study who conceived using fertility treatments were slighter older on average than white women who did so.

☆ Following the fall of Roe v. Wade, telemedicine startup Hey Jane just raised $6.1 million to increase access to abortion pills
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Samantha Stokes | Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Abortion telemedicine startup Hey Jane raised $6.1 million in funding. Reproductive health startups are receiving more attention from VCs following the fall of Roe v. Wade. The fall of Roe v. Wade earlier this year has caused some states to restrict access to abortions and has thrown reproductive rights into the spotlight. Hey Jane raised $6.1 million in Series A funding from female-led Ulu Ventures, The Helm, Amboy Street, Portfolia, and G9. Moving forward, a key area of focus for Hey Jane will be increasing awareness of medication abortion to the general public, as well as access.

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