By Andy Igrejas, Campaign Director for Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Wednesday’s successful Senate vote on the Safe Chemicals Act was an important milestone by any measure. It was the first vote on a comprehensive overhaul of our chemical safety system in 36 years. It means ...

                                   by Iris Waichler, L.C.S.W.  One of the toughest things about coping with ...

by Corey Whelan All eyes are on London for the Summer Olympics, which begin on July 27th. Literally thousands of athletic hopefuls will converge upon the city, with adrenaline running through their veins and a story to tell. Included in the roster of potential Gold Medalists is 25 year-old world ...

by Stuart Bell I am currently in Washington DC staffing a booth for the American Fertility Association’s new HIV Outreach program, designed to educate men with HIV about their biological family building options through assisted reproduction.   This conference is the largest of its ...

NEW YORK, July 19, 2012 — The American Fertility Association (The AFA) announced today the initiation of a program designed to reach men living with HIV who want to create a family. The good news is that these men, with proper treatment, can safely have biological children of their own. The ...

Mary Ramie Hinckley, M.D. of Reproductive Science Center for San Francisco, discusses the many ways hormones and insulin resistance can be controlled for women with polycystic ovarian syndrome. This "How-To" video was made possible by an educational grant from Attain Fertility Ce...

by Corey Whelan When couples decide that yes, it's time to have a baby, many excitedly set the stage for that first, heady, baby-making sexual encounter with a candle-lit dinner, soft, romantic music, and fingers crossed. For hopeful moms who are lesbians however, that scene might look a little ...

by S. Fenella Das Gupta, Ph.D., Neuroscience  In the U.S., there’s a deep ambivalence surrounding the issue of gestational surrogacy, a process in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. It’s a hot topic when a woman decides to rent out her womb. ...

by Michael S. Goldstein, Esq., LCSW New York, New York it’s a hell of a town.  Well not just a town, but the entire state has been one of the strictest prohibitors of surrogacy since 1992.  Sections 121-124 of the New York Domestic Relations Law outlawed surrogate parenting by ...

by Corey Whelan As infertility technologies improve, so do success rates. Statistically, increases in pregnancy and live birth rates have been seen for women across all age ranges over the past decade. These success stories include pregnancies resulting from donor egg IVF cycles in older women. ...