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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 > > _________________________________ glenn mcgee phd associate director for education, center for bioethics & professor, dept. of medical ethics, school of medicine university of pennsylvania - http://bioethics.org 3401 market street suite 320 philadelphia 19104-3319 Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Bioethics The MIT Press - http://bioethics.net 215.573.8103 Administrative Asst Brooke Wilson 267.200.0034 eFax _________________________________