HeyReprotech is on winter hiatus this month, but...

Here are two articles you might find interesting. 

The first is about the first researcher to get human sperm to fertilize a human egg outside the body. Her name was Miriam Menkin, but most of us have never heard of her.

The second is about Health Canada's failure to adequately regulate assisted reproduction in the practice of former Ottawa fertility doctor Norman Barwin. 

Long live public broadcasters. 

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