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LONDON, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Powerful drugs given to women egg-donors to harvest their eggs can cause paralysis, limb amputation and death warns a new study by Italian experts. The warning comes from researchers at the University of Padua just days before the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is expected to endorse a controversial new policy allowing doctors to pay healthy women for harvesting their eggs for research purposes. The Daily Telegraph reports that the scientists at the University of Padua discovered in their study that 34 women suffered severe reactions to the hormone-stimulating drugs,...

News Nature 442, 607-608(10 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442607a; Published online 9 August 2006Special ReportHealth effects of egg donation may take decades to emerge Helen PearsonTop of pageAbstract A Nature Special Report investigates the ethics and economics of donating eggs for stem-cell research. In the first part Erika Check investigated whether paying donors would increase supply. In this, the second part Helen Pearson asks what is known about the long-term health risks faced by donors. In 1989, a healthy 32-year-old woman offered her infertile younger sister some of her healthy eggs, and with them the chance to have a baby. Doctors...

Full Text News Nature 442, 606-607(10 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442606a; Published online 9 August 2006Special ReportEthicists and biologists ponder the price of eggs Erika CheckTop of pageAbstract A Nature Special Report investigates the ethics and economics of donating eggs for stem-cell research. In this, the first part Erika Check investigates whether paying donors would increase supply. In the second part Helen Pearson asks what is known about the long-term health risks faced by donors. Should women be paid for the time, discomfort and health risks involved in donating eggs for research? The world's largest group of stem-cell scientists is grappling...

Donor Issue Slows Stem Cell Progress S. Korea Crisis May Affect U.S. Debate By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 20, 2005; A06 An ethics crisis at one of the world's most successful human embryonic stem cell laboratories has plunged the controversial field of research into a new swirl of uncertainty, with U.S. scientists nervously wondering if the scandal will grow into a new wave of political backlash. The accusations surrounding Korean cloning expert Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University -- the first scientist to grow stem cells inside cloned human embryos -- has already killed a...

Study Backs Post-Menopause Pregnancy By Lindsey Tanner AP Medical Writer Tuesday, November 12, 2002; 2:43 PM CHICAGO –– There's no medical reason to prevent healthy women in their 50s from turning back their biological clocks and having babies with donated eggs, researchers say in the biggest study of motherhood after menopause.