Author: Andres Trevino

Healthy babies for disease carriers, by JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH, Jun. 5, 2004 23:10 The author describes the case of the first woman to use PGD to find a healthy baby. “A Jerusalem woman suffering from myotonic dystrophy is due to give birth in December to a healthy baby identified as a normal ovum and two-day-old embryo…

Testing new hope for IVF success By ZOE TAYLOR Medical Reporter, June 7, 2004 In this article Zoe Taylor describes PGD as a “world-first trial”. I guess that the clinic (Sydney IVF) didnt explain to the reporter that there are more than 1,000 babies born using PGD. “Several hundred women under the age of 37…

Desperate couples seek court’s help, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan. I found the following in an article today at “Asahi Shimbum, Japan’s Leading National Newspaper”, the reporter describes what couples and doctors are doing regarding PGD: One of the plaintiffs, a woman in her 30s, has suffered repeated miscarriages. “My right to have a healthy baby…

Early genetic testing allays fears, ignites ethics debate by By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY. In an article published yesterday on USA TODAY Rita Rubin said, “To critics, though ….. the quest for a stem cell donor may be only the first step toward tissue donor mills and designer babies whose IQ and eye color are…