Fertility articles
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How fertility doctor Scott Sills tried to hide his wife Susann's murder
Theresa Neubauer was at work five years ago at a Georgia university when she got a phone call that stunned her. Her son-in-law — a prominent fertility doctor who’d authored or edited several medical books — had just been arrested on suspicion of murder in the mysterious death of her daughter, Susann Sills, 45. Susann’s body had been found at the bottom of a staircase in the couple's suburban Southern California home in 2016. Up until that April 2019 phone call, Neubauer said, her family hadn’t...
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Spring, fertility and an awakening with Spain’s Las Mayas – a photo essay
Since 2014 Spanish photographer Daniel Ochoa de Olza has been portraying the girl participants in a spring festival held in Colmenar Viejo outside Madrid. His portraits bear witness to his fascination with the enduring nature of Spain’s ritualsWith obscure origins in pagan customs and dating back to medieval times, the festivities of La Maya offers a strange and colourful spectacle celebrating the arrival of spring. Every year on 2 May the families of girls aged between seven and 11 gather to...
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Republicans Press CDC Over The Unethical, Unchecked ‘Wild West’ Fertility Industry
‘Congress cannot allow clinics to continue concealing these activities,’ the Republican representatives warned.