background: This paper presents finding from a study of the emotional and relational aspects of egg-sharing, exploring egg-share donors’ and recipients’ thoughts and feelings about each other, about each other’s treatment outcome and any resulting children, as well as their attitudes towards disclosure of donor origins and contact between donors and donor offspring in the future. It is the firs...

BACKGROUND This preliminary investigation attempted to determine the effectiveness of egg membranes as a new biological dressing to promote infection-free healing and provide pain relief over split-thickness skin graft (STSG) donor sites. METHODS Eighteen patients, with 28 STSG donor sites who were admitted to the LinKou Burn Center from August 1997 to July 1999, were selected for this trial....

Motherhood is no longer a simple concept. Black’s Law Dictionary defines “mother” as “a woman who has given birth to or legally adopted a child.” Recent advances in reproductive technologies have called into question this basic definition of motherhood. Through in vitro fertilization, it is possible to extract an egg from one woman and implant the fertilized egg into the uterus of another woman...

In recent years, concerns have been raised regarding the potentially negative consequences of gamete donation for parent-child relationships. Findings are presented of a study of families with an infant conceived by gamete donation. Fifty donor insemination families and 51 egg donation families were compared with 80 natural conception families on standardized interview and questionnaire measure...

In vitro fertilization (IVF) with reception of oocytes from partners (ROPA) allows lesbian mothers to share biological motherhood. The gestational mother receives an egg from her partner who becomes the genetic mother. This article examines the ethics of IVF with ROPA with a focus on the welfare of the woman and the resulting child, on whether ROPA qualifies as a "legitimate" medical therapy th...

The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Virginia announced last week that they intentionally created human embryos from donor eggs and sperm with the sole purpose of conducting destructive research on nascent humans. The twelve egg donors were paid $1500 to $2000 each, about what the average egg donor receives. The sperm donors were paid about $50 each. So, that means that the money ea...

Recent advances in nuclear transfer technology for derivation of patient-specific stem cells have opened up new avenues of therapy for various human diseases. However, a major bottleneck is the severe shortage of human donor oocytes. Egg-sharing in return for subsidized fertility treatment has been suggested as an ethically justifiable and practical solution to ease the shortage of donor oocyte...