When Ruthie Ackerman first decided to use a donor egg to conceive, she worried there could be a lingering, lifelong wedge ...

As more and more women turn to egg freezing, hoping to hit pause on their biological clocks and have children when they're older, some experts caution against relying on the medical procedure. Egg ...

More and more American women are freezing their eggs to preserve their fertility. The number of procedures has increased more than six times over, from 6,000 in 2014, to more than 39,000 in 2023 ...

But coverage isn't the only factor — gaps in the rates of egg freezing among Black women persist, even when insurance is there to help cover the cost. A 2023 study by Fertility and Sterility of ...

Overall, researchers found that the magic number for older women appears to be five eggs per week. In other words, an egg a day may keep cognitive decline away.

A fertility expert has weighed in on why so many women are choosing to freeze their eggs. Getty Images. Hockley, 36, is in a long distance relationship with Swiss footballer Benjamin Siegrist, ...

HOUSTON – An increasing number of women are choosing when to start their family by freezing their eggs.. KPRC 2 reporter Candace Burns talked to several women who had the process done and looked ...

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 ...

Single women from mainland China, barred from freezing their eggs at home, are traveling to Hong Kong and elsewhere to undergo the procedure.

Participants were selected based on their egg consumption and performance on cognitive evaluations during visits that took place in 1988–1991 and 1992–1996. After excluding participants under ...