South Asia | New Zealand | Medicine

More single women are turning to fertility services to have children

The number of single women seeking fertility treatment has almost doubled in two years as career-minded professionals without partners opt to parent alone. Demand at New Zealand's largest private fertility clinic is so high women are waiting 18 months for sperm donors. Fertility Associates' Dr Simon Kelly said numbers of single women wanting fertility treatment had swelled from 80 in 2012 to 156 last year. It was expected to be higher this year. That compared with 56 heterosexual and 88 same-sex couples receiving treatment last year, similar levels to in 2012 and 2013. Donor treatment

North America | United States | Health

US ‘worst place to be a mother’ among developed nations – report

Source: RT

America is the worst developed country in the world to be a mother, ranking 61st globally in maternal health, a groundbreaking analysis of global health inequalities has found. The US performed worse than last year, when it was in 31st place overall. This year it is 33rd. Although it did well on economic and educational status, according to this year's Mother's Index the country lags behind on children's well-being, where it is 42nd, and on maternal health, ranking 61st. A woman in the United States is more than 10 times as likely as a woman in Austria, Belarus or Poland to die from a pr