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University Hospitals has notified about 700 fertility patients and their families that the frozen eggs and embryos they had stored at one of its hospitals may have been damaged over the weekend when the temperature rose in a storage tank.
The problem, in one of two large freezers preserving specimens at the UH Fertility Center housed at the Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, was discovered on Sunday morning. It occurred some time after staff left the previous afternoon, according to Patti DePompei, president of UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and MacDonald Women's Hospital.
The liquid nitrogen freezer held about 2,000 egg and embryo specimens, according to Dr. James Liu, chairman of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UH Cleveland Medical Center. Some patients had more than one sample stored, and some of the samples were provided as long ago as the 1980's.
Also at Newsweek.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @04:11PM (1 child)
You won't be a parent if no one will take your sperm either. And supposing you had someone who would, the recipients time window is much shorter than the time some people have had their sperm stored.
Fish or cut bait. You want to be a parent bad enough to end up with a mongoloid?
(Score: 2) by Kell on Monday March 12 2018, @03:39PM
Well, you have no idea what my age or marital status is. Yes, I have a partner for my cells, and no age isn't a factor (at least, not in the near few years). Practically everyone who goes down this path gets educated on the exigencies of the situation.
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.