{"id":74664,"date":"2012-10-25T01:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T09:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18884"},"modified":"2012-10-25T01:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T09:41:45","slug":"putting-a-stop-on-the-biological-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/25\/putting-a-stop-on-the-biological-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting a stop on the biological clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/2012\/10\/egg-freezing-enters-clinical-mainstream.html\">Egg freezing enters clinical mainstream<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Egg freezing is no longer an experimental procedure, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), which on 22 October issued new guidelines on the controversial practice. The change in policy is expected to accelerate the growth of clinics that offer egg freezing to women who face fertility-damaging treatment for cancer or other conditions, and to women wishing to delay having a baby \u2014 although the society stopped short of endorsing the procedure for that purpose<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asrm.org\/uploadedFiles\/ASRM_Content\/News_and_Publications\/Practice_Guidelines\/Committee_Opinions\/Ovarian_tissue_and_oocyte(1).pdf\">read the full guidelines, with caveats, online<\/a>. Last I checked this costs on the order of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fertility-docs.com\/fertility_fees.phtml#fees_list\">$10,000<\/a>. Nothing to sneeze at, but definitely not insane when you consider how much money many couples spend on fertility technologies when women are between 35 and 40.<\/p>\n<p>And of course <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/08\/beware-of-the-ancient-of-days\/\">I recommend freezing sperm too<\/a>. That&#8217;s far less costly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/y4t0-aF4HSw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egg freezing enters clinical mainstream:<br \/>\nEgg freezing is no longer an experimental procedure, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), which on 22 October issued new guidelines on the controversial practice. The change in pol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertility","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74664"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74694,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74664\/revisions\/74694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}