Australia’s leading fertility clinic has admitted to using substandard sperm as part of a treatment that gave women little chance of ever falling pregnant. Sydney woman Amy Jones was one of several women who had…
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Louise Brown is used to the public eye — her birth having been televised for all the world to see. What made her arrival so special, was her revolutionary conception. Brown, who turns 41 on…
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The most important step for a doctor performing in vitro fertilization (IVF) is selecting the best possible embryo to implant in the uterus. As success rates for IVF have improved and cryopreservation became widely available,…
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JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest investment banks in the world, is set to expand the benefits for fertility treatment and surrogacy services. This was written in an internal memo sent to all the…
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A commonly used strategy of freezing embryos and waiting several weeks before using them was proved ineffective to boost pregnancy success rate during IVF. This was shown by a trial conducted by specialists from Copenhagen…
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The success rate of in-vitro fertilization treatments has peaked at one in four. This was revealed in a study conducted by European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). The researchers assessed 800 000 IVF…
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The infertility around the world is on the rise. And the main contributing factor to it, apart from worsening ecology, may be obesity among men. The doctoral research in the University of Tartu Institute of…
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One of the largest American hedge funds, famed quant fund D.E. Shaw is the latest big-name financial firm to up its benefits package for hopeful parents. Under its new “family building benefit” plan, the firm…
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A team, consisting of embryologists, reproductive medicine clinicians, computer scientists, and precision medicine experts, trained an artificial intelligence algorithm to discriminate between poor and good embryo quality. A new artificial intelligence approach by Weill Cornell…
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The story of Cecile Eledge, her son Matthew and his friend Elliot is not only impressive because it challenges the patterns of motherhood and pregnancy; but because of the complications and obstacles that the couple was…
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