Controversial IVF Doctor Gives Hope to Older Indian Women
By: Muneeza Naqvi Gurjeet is the child Kaur yearned for desperately, after 40 years of being that thing which a rural Indian woman dreads more than almost anything else — barren. She gave birth at 58 years old, with help from a controversial IVF clinic in a corner of north India that specializes in fertility treatments for women over 50. Such treatments have become more common across the world, and they strike a cultural chord in India, where a woman is often defined by her ability to be a wife and mother. While there are no reliable statistics for how many Indian women undergo fertility treatments each year at what age, tens of thousands of IVF clinics have sprouted up in the country over the last decade. Fertility specialists say pregnancies like Kaur’s are troubling because of the potential health risks and the concern that the parents may not live…
Saudi Arabia/UAE Pledge $100million to Ivanka’s Women Entrepreneurs Fund
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Liver Failure
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On the Marble – Marillyn Hewson
“Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it.…
