News Alert: Fertility clinic informs hundreds of patients their eggs may have been damaged. The incident was the second in U.S. in one weekend.

A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic had a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank in which thousands of eggs and embryos are kept frozen for future use, jeopardizing the tissue that hundreds of women have deposited there in hope of having children. The March 4 incident at Pacific Fertility Clinic, acknowledged on Sunday by the facility's president, comes on the heels of a similar malfunction the same weekend at an unrelated clinic in Cleveland.

Democracy Dies in Darkness     News Alert Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 5:16 PM     Fertility clinic informs hundreds of patients their eggs may have been damaged. The incident was the second in U.S. in one weekend. A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic had a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank in which thousands of eggs and embryos are kept frozen for future use, jeopardizing the tissue that hundreds of women have deposited there in hope of having children. The March 4 incident at Pacific Fertility Clinic, acknowledged on Sunday by the facility's president, comes on the heels of a similar malfunction the same weekend at an unrelated clinic in Cleveland. Read more » Advertisement You received this email because you signed up for news alerts from The Washington Post. Manage my newsletters and alerts | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy | Help ©2018 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071