Two common fertility treatments involving an ovary-stimulating drug and artificial insemination to improve the chances of conceiving a child yields the same results as no treatment at all, according to a study published Friday. Clomifene citrate, best known by its brand names Clomid and Serophene, a drug used by millions of women in recent decades to stimulate ovaries to produce eggs, failed to improve the odds of becoming pregnant, researchers in Britain said.

The future of an infant born of an Indian surrogate mother is uncertain as her biological parents, a Japanese couple, divorced after conception. Abandoned by her Japanese and the Indian mother, the baby is now under her grandmother's care in a hospital in Jaipur, in western Rajasthan state.

A transgender man who surprised the world in April by revealing he was pregnant gave birth Sunday to a baby girl at a hospital here. Thomas Beatie, 34, who switched gender from woman to man, delivered his baby at the St. Charles Medical Center. He gave birth naturally.

A transgendered male in Oregon is 22 weeks pregnant. Thomas Beatie only had chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy, but did not have his female reproductive organs changed. Following his sex reassignment, Beatie was legally able to register himself as a male and even married Nancy. But because of Nancy's severe endemetriosis and hysterectomy, she could not bear a child over 10 years of marriage to Thomas.

After call centers and other backroom operations, India has developed a unique outsourcing service: wombs for rent. In a small clinic at Kaival Hospital in Anand, infertile couples worldwide could be matched with local Indian women who could deliver their babies at a cost of around $10,000. The fee already includes the entire procedure, including fertilization, medical expenses and the fee for the surrogate mother.