Published on: 2025-04-27 19:25:45
In recent years, focus on career and delayed marriage age is driving some women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing. But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt, means many women can’t afford it during their most fertile years: 20s and early 30s. Cofertility, a startup founded by former Uber executive Lauren Makler and health tech angel investor Halle Tecco, offers women no-cost egg freezing in exchange for donating half the retrieve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 17:30:00
In recent years, focus on career and delayed marriage age is driving some women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing. But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt, means many women can’t afford it during their most fertile years: 20s and early 30s. Cofertility, a startup founded by former Uber executive Lauren Makler and health tech angel investor Halle Tecco, offers women no-cost egg freezing in exchange for donating half the retrieve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 03:30:00
In recent years, focus on career and delayed marriage age is driving some women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing. But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt, means many women can’t afford it during their most fertile years: 20s and early 30s. Cofertility, a startup founded by former Uber executive Lauren Makler and health tech angel investor Halle Tecco, offers women no-cost egg freezing in exchange for donating half the retrieve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 22:45:59
Would you ever donate a spare organ to someone else while you’re still alive? Probably not, given how few living organ donations happen these days. Kidneys, and more recently livers, are some of the only body parts that can be donated by someone living. Our bodies can function perfectly fine with one kidney, whereas the liver can grow back (doctors only take out a piece for transplantation). While there are some short-term risks—as with any surgery—and potential rare complications, studies hav
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 06:53:25
US sperm donor giant California Cryobank is warning customers it suffered a data breach that exposed customers' personal information. California Cryobank is a full-service sperm bank providing frozen donor sperm and specialized reproductive services, such as egg and embryo storage. The company is the largest sperm bank in the US and services all 50 states and more than 30 countries worldwide. California Cryobank detected suspicious activity on its network on April 21, 2024, and isolated the co
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 02:12:00
Forward-looking: An Australian man has become the first person in the world to leave a hospital with a total artificial heart implant, marking a significant milestone in heart failure treatment. He lived with the device for over 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March – the longest recorded survival with this technology. The patient, a man in his 40s from New South Wales, received the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) during a six-hour procedure at St. Vincent's Hos
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An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to walk out of a hospital with a total artificial heart implant. The Australian researchers and doctors behind the operation announced on Wednesday that the implant had been an “unmitigated clinical success” after the man lived with the device for more than 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March. The BiVACOR total artificial heart, invented by Queensland-born Dr Daniel Timms, is the world’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 06:17:34
An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to walk out of a hospital with a total artificial heart implant. The Australian researchers and doctors behind the operation announced on Wednesday that the implant had been an “unmitigated clinical success” after the man lived with the device for more than 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March. The BiVACOR total artificial heart, invented by Queensland-born Dr Daniel Timms, is the world’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 02:35:38
Your regular donation of blood could be doing some good for your own health. Researchers have found early evidence that blood donation can trigger helpful changes in the cells that replenish our blood supply. Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute and others conducted the study, published Tuesday in the journal Blood. Studying blood samples from frequent donors, the scientists identified genetic mutations in the stem cells that turn into blood cells—mutations that might improve the body’s re
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A person’s precious organ donation came with an unexpected visitor. In a new paper out this month, scientists have documented an unconventional way of catching a rare germ normally spread by ticks: from a person’s infected donated kidney. Doctors and health officials detailed the unusual mishap in a report published Monday in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Both the living donor and recipient became sick soon after their operations, leading doctors to discover that the former had tran
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