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Donald Cline. Donald Lee Cline (born December 10, 1938) is a former American medical doctor of obstetrics and gynecology and convicted felon. [ 1][ 2] Between 1974 and 1987, Cline sired over 90 children without disclosing himself as the sperm donor to his patients. [ 3] As of May 11, 2022, Cline has been confirmed as the biological father of 94 ...
Ricardo Asch. Ricardo Hector Asch (born 26 October 1947) [ 1] is an obstetrician, gynecologist, and endocrinologist. He worked with reproductive technology and pioneered gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), as well as working on research linking fertility and marijuana usage, [ 2] and investigated the use of GnRH analogues with Andrew Schally ...
Ig Nobel Prize in Biology (1992) Cecil Byran Jacobson (October 2, 1936 – March 5, 2021 [1]) was an American former fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without informing them. Jacobson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. A graduate of Brown University, he became a researcher at George Washington University, but had ...
Fertility fraud is the failure on the part of a fertility doctor to obtain consent from a patient before inseminating her with his own sperm. This normally occurs in the context of people using assisted reproductive technology (ART) to address fertility issues. The term is also used in cases where donor eggs are used without consent [ 1] and ...
Atrium Health. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority ( doing business as Atrium Health ), formerly Carolinas HealthCare System, is a hospital network with more than 70,000 employees and, since its merger with Advocate Aurora Health in 2022, part of Advocate Health. [1] [2] It operates 40 hospitals, 7 freestanding emergency departments, over ...
History of in vitro fertilisation. The history of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) goes back more than half a century. In 1959 the first birth in a nonhuman mammal resulting from IVF occurred, and in 1978 the world's first baby conceived by IVF was born. As medicine advanced, IVF was transformed from natural research to a stimulated clinical treatment.
employment. Hospitals, Clinics. Reproductive endocrinology and infertility ( REI) is a surgical subspecialty of obstetrics and gynecology that trains physicians in reproductive medicine addressing hormonal functioning as it pertains to reproduction as well as the issue of infertility. While most REI specialists primarily focus on the treatment ...
Bourn Hall Clinic was founded in 1980 by IVF pioneers Mr Patrick Steptoe, embryologist Jean Purdy and Professor Robert Edwards, who were responsible for the conception of Louise Brown, the world's first IVF or test-tube baby in 1977. [1] Since its foundation the clinic has assisted in the conception of over 10,000 babies.