Fertility

• Kitchener couple recounts challenges of IVF journey, pregnancy loss during COVID-19

  After a difficult journey with IVF, COVID-19 restrictions and a miscarriage, Carly and Kara Pettinger are not letting go of their dreams of becoming parents.

  Features

  Mar 17
• Can you afford a baby? Fertility advocates call on workplaces to update benefit plans

  Fertility patient groups say work benefit plans need to be updated to help cover expensive fertility treatments.

  Health

  Feb 9
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• Doctors, patients call on Canadian employers to help cover cost of fertility treatments, drugs

  Fertility patient groups in Canada are calling on employers to improve fertility benefits as part of a new campaign called Fertility Benefits Matter.

  Health

  Feb 2
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• World population to peak in 2064, new projections suggest

  The world will hit a peak population of 9.7 billion in the year 2064, a new study predicts.

  World

  Jul 15, 2020
• After years of fertility struggles, Alberta couple welcomes ‘moon twins’

  In the span of a week, an Alberta couple welcomed a baby boy and girl they're calling their "moon twins," — one born via surrogacy and the other from the mother herself.

  Lifestyle

  Jul 7, 2020
• Patients ‘losing precious time’ as fertility treatments paused due to coronavirus

  'Procedures being delayed for 12 to 18 months might mean that some people just don't get to have families,' said one expert.

  Lifestyle

  Apr 13, 2020
• Rule change makes it easier for women undergoing fertility treatment to access sperm from known donors

  As of Feb. 4, a change to Health Canada regulations will make using sperm donation from a friend or acquaintance for fertility treatment easier and cheaper.

  Lifestyle

  Feb 11, 2020
• Life after death: Should dead men become sperm donors?

  A new paper argues that men should be allowed to consent to donating their sperm after death, just like they might donate their heart.

  Health

  Jan 26, 2020
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• This week on ‘Focus Montreal’: Oct. 24, 2019

  On this week’s edition of Focus Montreal, Global's Elysia Bryan-Baynes speaks to the director of the McGill Institute for the study of Canada, a scientist trying to understand how infertility works and to an award winning Montreal documentary director about her latest film, Just Me and You.

  Features

  Dec 10, 2019
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• Our eggs age as we age: What women should know about fertility

  Women, in general, are delaying childbirth, but some still fear they won't be able to have kids after a certain age.

  Lifestyle

  Nov 17, 2019