In fact for many years a mimeograph of a bad informal study that showed
(purported to show) that hyperstimulation of the ovaries is just fine
for women was routinely distributed to women in clinics for many years.
My student Andy Gurmankin published a big pilot study on the degree to
which clinics misinform about known and unknown risks during
recruitment (see AJOB of last year I think) which won an award from
APLS as the paper of the year by a graduate student. But I think
frankly that there isn't much real data to show what is purported to be
shown by this ScienceDaily piece. Which is itself the main issue. No
money to support studies of either eventual psychological or medical
outcomes for children of ART. This is the key issue of my own research
and I have spent about 1/4 of my disposable income funding studies on
the area -- I now have $50,000 Visa bill just from studies I've funded
on embryo adoption and parental perceptions of ART broadly in the last
year. We all had high hopes that Pew would fund a big initiative and
indeed they brought in Andrea K. to run a center at Hopkins which will
do great things in this regard. But soon Pew or someone better put out
a REAL RFP on this issue. Ironically, the Bush administration might
sponsor such research since it has a vested interest in seeing ART
killed. We have to be very careful about who our bedmates are on these
issues these days. Although it is hard to get worse than funding half
your research out of Visa.
Glenn
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:02 AM, Joan Callahan wrote:
> At 08:16 AM 11/18/02 -0500, you wrote:
>> From ScienceDaily
>> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/11/021118065310.htm
>>
>>
>> Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
>> Date: 11/18/2002
>>
>>
>> Assisted Reproduction May Be Linked To Birth Defect Syndrome
>
> Thanks to Doug for this post. While we're on assisted reproduction, I
> have
> long suspected that the fertility drugs given to women who are trying
> to
> conceive are likely to be linked to reproductive cancers (just as I
> long
> suspected that hormone replacement therapy is so linked). Has anyone
> seen
> any studies to this effect?
>
> Joan
>
>
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