By Emily Woodruff | STAT | January 28, 2017
There has been little research on the long-term health outcomes for egg donors. Most of the research that has been conducted on egg extraction has focused on people undergoing in vitro fertilization (or IVF)—an entirely different population. This reality begs the question posed by one of the patients quoted in this article: “How informed can your consent be if we don’t have the information?”