Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we decide what human eggs are worth — and how do the ...

I was 28 years old when I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. That is one chilling diagnosis, especially at a considerably fertile age of 28. To be fair, it was not a complete shock, because ...

If a couple cannot get pregnant using the woman's own eggs for in vitro fertilization, they may want to consider using donor eggs. Donor eggs -- and sometimes donor embryos -- allow an infertile woman ...

A UK medical writer who doesn’t think she wants to have children has donated 88 eggs to help four couples start families. Alex Webster, 31, hatched a plan after discovering in 2016 that her friend ...

An ideal egg donation begins with an infertile couple seeking a young, healthy and intelligent woman to provide the genetic material to help start a family. In return, the altruistic donor is ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Egg donors may receive different treatment based on which commercial egg bank they're working with and if the eggs are intended for fresh or frozen transfer, according to two national ...

Women offered tens of thousands for choice eggs in unregulated industry. May 11, 2010— -- Egg donation isn't supposed to be a get-rich business for donors, but young women across the country are ...

Vox reader Quentin Ampersand asks: How safe is egg donation? Are there negative long-term impacts? How well are the health impacts understood? Egg donation occupies an unusual spot in American ...

Here’s a riddle for your rabbi: If your baby is born from in vitro fertilization, and the donated egg isn’t from a Jewish woman, is the baby really Jewish? Although different branches of Judaism have ...

Leah stared at an egg donor profile on her laptop. Blonde hair. Ivy League degree. Artistic flair. She should have felt hopeful. Instead, her chest tightened. This was nothing like the beginning of ...

Over the past few months something strange has happened to my social media feeds. Rather than the relentless flow of ads for Shein, the all-mighty algorithm has decided that what I really need to see ...