Topic: Family
Former British prime minister Tony Blair met Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma Wednesday on progress made in providing free healthcare to pregnant women and children under five. "The idea is that if you provide the health care free, more people will access the service and more children and mothers will stay alive," Blair told AFP on a visit to Rokupa ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using transplants of ovarian tissue, the first time the complex treatment has produced two babies from separate pregnancies. Claus Yding Andersen, the Danish doctor who treated the woman, said the case showed how this method of storing ovarian tissue was a valid way of preserving ...
In what doctors described Wednesday as a world first, a Danish woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using ovarian tissue that was removed, frozen, thawed and then reimplanted after cancer treatment. It is being hailed as a breakthrough for young women whose hope of one day becoming mothers could be wrecked by cancer therapy ...
Diplomats in Nepal on Wednesday urged the government to tighten controls on international adoptions after the parents of a child put up for adoption said they had not given their permission. In a statement issued by the US embassy, diplomats from 14 countries urged the government "to act swiftly" to implement safeguards contained in a 1993 Hague convention on international ...
