Human reproduction

An online retailer, Pretty Woman Inc, is selling ‘Passion Dust intimacy capsules’ filled with candy-scented glitter that women place in their vagina make their and sex life literally tastier! The new vaginal glitter-bombs promise to make the private area of women more tasty and to glow!

A pair of gay dads are expecting a baby together after one of them, who is transgender, became pregnant.
Trystan Reese, 34, and Biff Chaplow, from Portland, have revealed that they will be welcoming a child this summer after experiencing a heart-breaking miscarriage at six weeks in 2016, when trans-dad Trystan became pregnant for the first time.

Authorities are investigating the refusal of anesthesiologists at the General Hospital of Samos in the eastern Aegean to provide their services in cases of abortions at 12 weeks or less, citing moral concerns.

The anesthesiologists at the Hospital of Samos have collectively refused to issue anesthetic treatment to pregnant women for abortions on grounds of conscience. In a written statement handed to the hospital’s management, the employees said they would refrain from issuing anesthetics to pregnant women who wanted to perform abortions, unless serious life threatening risks demanded it.

Health Minister Andreas Xanthos on Friday announced plans to provide free birth control pills to women covered by national health provider EOPYY as well as uninsured women.

The number of births in Greece through in vitro fertilization (IVF) has dropped between 40 and 50 percent over the last eight years due to the financial crisis, according to experts in the field.

Human life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing ‘fireworks’ on film.

An explosion of tiny sparks erupts from the egg at the exact moment of conception.

Hospitals in Ankara have refused to admit an HIV-infected pregnant girl with mental disabilities to give birth because she had the "risk of carrying contagious virus." 

The girl, whose name remains hidden, was left abandoned after wanting to give birth, but was rejected by a number of hospitals, daily Habertürk reported on March 13. 

A court in Istanbul has ruled Istanbul University to pay compensation to a girl whose mother died after she received wrong blood transfusion during a caesarean section surgery at the university's Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty Hospital in 2013. 

Police have launched an investigation following an arson attack on a IVF clinic in Halandri, north of Athens, reports say.

According to reports, unknown individuals smashed the glass doors before tossing molotov cocktails inside the building. The incident, which took place at 4.14 a.m., has caused damage, but no injuries.