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Again I don't want to be contentious since I agree with both the point that there isn't enough data and that there are likely many risks - extending vastly beyond the medical and beyond the nebulous notion that children have a right to an "open" future - that have not been quantified. But those australian studies are super problematic and I would be very careful about citing them. This is an area where a review of the literature is clearly called for and I would be very interested in working on one with anybody interested in co-authoring?? Obviously the people least likely to publish it are those at Human Reproduction and Fertility and Sterility, but I will wager that Health Affairs or JAMA would do so. On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 11:44 AM, Susana E. Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > Cynthia Cohen in "Give me children or I shall die...", Hastings > Center > Report, v.26, # 9, 1996 she mentions that Australia is the only > country to > have statistics and follow up of the children born by NRT and that it > shows > that these children have a higher probability of suffering certain > illnesses, besides those due to premature birth and multiple > pregnancies. > > Susana E. Sommer > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laura Purdy" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:57 PM > Subject: Re: Assisted Reproduction May Be Linked To Birth Defect > Syndrome > > >> Joan-- >> There is a literature on the topic--search for IVF and ovarian > cancer--that >> should get you into it. >> Laura >> >> >> >> >> >> At 10:02 AM 11/18/2002 -0500, you 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 _________________________________