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Scientists successfully removed the uterus (pictured) and then transplanted it back into the sheep, which later became pregnant (Image: Pernilla Dahm-Kahler/Mats Brannstrom)
A New York hospital is taking steps to offer the nation's first uterus transplant, a radical experiment that might allow women whose wombs were removed or are defective to bear children.
Keeping squabbling children apart is a problem that taxes all parents, but for the grey nurse shark it is a little more serious. Its embryos have a nasty habit of eating each other in the uterus.
Informed Consent and The H WordAn interview with the author of The H Word: The diagnostic studies to evaluate symptoms, alternatives in treatment, and coping with the aftereffects of hysterectomy.
Octomom Says Goodbye To UterusOctuplet mom Nadya Suleman is checking herself into the hospital this weekend to have part of her uterus removed, she told Radar Online.
The H Word: What gynecology doesn't want you to know about 100 years of hysterectomy and female castration in AmericaTHE H WORD takes an unflinching look at the complex environment of hysterectomy, and those who enable it.
Sanctioned Violence Against Women: "fraud in the inducement"What do you call it when someone deceptively lures another into danger? And if the deception involves telling a woman she'll be "better than ever" to lure her into being drugged and strapped down before cutting out her sex organs, what would you call that?
Woman with 2 uteri gives birth to twins--one in each uterusMARQUETTE -- Parents Shane and Sarah Reinfelder get to hold their newborn twins for the first time on Friday. A special moment because it's a miracle little Valerie Marie and Kaylin Joy are even here.
Local surgeon sets record with uterus removalHe didn't eat the most hot dogs in one sitting, nor was he born with the world's longest legs. Instead, Dr. Richard Demir of South Barrington recently set the Guinness World Record for removing the largest uterus ever laparoscopically.
Farewell to My Uterus Woman troubles" are not polite conversation. Fibroid symptoms can be degrading and embarrassing. The possibility of losing our reproductive capacity makes fibroids hard to confront. But our silence has real consequences.
Uterus transplant 'could be tomorrow'Thousands of women lacking a functioning uterus would be interested. If a uterus transplant was carried out tomorrow, it would only be the second ever. Would it be safe? The first was in Saudi Arabia in 2000 and it failed.
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