iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A U.S. fertility clinic is luring patients from abroad with the promise of picking their baby's gender.

Each year, more than 200 women travel to The Fertility Institutes' New York and Los Angeles locations from countries where gender selection is banned, according to clinic director Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg.

"Women from countries like China and India tend to want boys. In the rest of the world, there's a slight preference for girls," said Steinberg, a reproductive endocrinologist, who trained in England where gender selection is illegal.  read more ≫

Photo: James O'MaraCarole King has been added to the lineup of acclaimed R&B singer/songwriter Alicia Keys' annual New York City benefit concert, the Black Ball, which is scheduled for November 1 at the Hammerstein Ballroom. The charity event benefits Keys' Keep a Child Alive Foundation.

In a statement, Alicia says, "Carole King is an inspirational musician who blazed the trail for women in the music industry and I’m honored to have her perform at the Black Ball."  read more ≫