Egg-sharing across international borders. This may ease the shortage of donor oocytes in more economically developed countries while making fertility treatment affordable to childless couples from poorer countries [7]

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 443-

  Heng, Boon Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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Indexed keywords

ASIA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DONOR; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; EUROPE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LETTER; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28844440129     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.08.016     Document Type: Letter

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