02.12.2009 9:01 pm

State licensing boards must rein in free market fertility

Celebrity news website TMZ released this picture of a very pregnant Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets last month in California.

Last month, 33-year-old Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets in a California hospital. The eight babies — and their…

Tags: assisted reproduction, eight is enough, ethics, insurance, IVF infertility, medical ethics, Michael M. Kamrava, Nadya Suleman, octuplets

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11.21.2008 11:54 am

A down economy pushes up paid blood plasma ‘donations’

By John G. Carlton

Chicago Tribune photo

Call it a sign of these painful economic times: The Chicago Tribune reported this week that as the economy sours, the number of people being paid to donate blood plasma has jumped. Three years ago, about 10 million…

Tags: bad economy, economic troubles, economy, John G. Carlton, medical ethics, plasma donors, selling blood plasma

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State licensing boards must rein in free market fertility

A down economy pushes up paid blood plasma ‘donations’

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