News: UK's oldest IVF mother has baby
A 62-year old woman has become the UK's oldest woman to give birth to a child. Dr Patricia Rashbrook, who already has three children aged 18, 22 and 26, underwent IVF treatment using donor eggs in order to conceive her son, who was born by Caesarean section last week.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 11 July 2006
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Announcement: Alpha Conference Lucerne 15-17 September 2006
HOT TOPICS OF THE UPCOMING ALPHA MEETING
M. Van den Bergh 10 July 2006
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Announcement: Research Instruments unveils new pH meter that can measure pH levels inside an incubator.
Measuring pH inside your incubator is now accurate and easy.
W.R.Brown MBA 06 July 2006
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News: Three million IVF babies born worldwide
Data presented at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) has shown that more than three million babies have been born using IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART) since the world's first IVF baby was born in 1978.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 28 June 2006
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News: Sheep womb transplant success
Swedish scientists have successfully transplanted uteruses in sheep, an achievement that paves the way for women who do not have a womb to bear their own children.
Dr Jess Buxton 28 June 2006
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News: Vasectomies linked to genetic sperm damage
Vasectomies can cause chromosomal abnormalities in sperm, say a team based at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Dr Jess Buxton 24 June 2006
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News: IVF embryo culture link to genetic disorder
New research on mouse embryos suggests that laboratory culture conditions can affect the activity of several genes.
Dr Jess Buxton 24 June 2006
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News: Therapy for stress-related infertility
A study by scientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has revealed that stress-related infertility can be reversed by cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Dr Kirsty Horsey 24 June 2006
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News: Concern over 'IVF identity fraud'
Dr Luca Sabatini, from the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, UK, has told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Prague, Czech Republic, that fertility clinics across Europe should take more steps to protect themselves against identity fraud by prospective patients.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 24 June 2006
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News: New egg test may increase IVF success rate
Italian scientists have presented research at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Prague, Czech Republic, showing that eggs can be screened - before they are fertilised - for chromosomal abnormalities that might reduce IVF success rates.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 24 June 2006
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News: Call for free fertility treatment to boost Europe's population
Europe's increasing demographic crisis could be helped by providing free fertility treatment to more women.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 24 June 2006
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News: Free UK fertility treatment 'would boost economy'
Research presented today at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Prague, Czech Republic, suggests that the benefits that would come from the UK's government providing free fertility treatment to enable couples to have children would outweigh the initial costs.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 24 June 2006
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News: Scientists report on new egg freezing technique
Japanese scientists have presented research at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Prague, Czech Republic, today, suggesting that the inequality between men and women when it comes to freezing gametes - particularly following treatment for cancer, which might render them infertile - may be able to be balanced out.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 20 June 2006
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News: New technique will improve embryo test success rates
A new technique is set to improve the success rate of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the testing of embryos for gene mutations that cause disease.
Dr Jess Buxton 20 June 2006
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News: No physical health problems for ICSI children
Researchers from Belgium have presented evidence at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Prague, Czech Republic, today, to show that children born from intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are still developing well 8 years after birth.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 20 June 2006
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Announcement: IVI AMERICA CONGRESS
Dates: 15th, 16th and 17th November, 2006
Place: Mexico DF
Ana Dipierri 20 June 2006
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News: Parents warned over speculative cord blood banking
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has issued an updated version of its Scientific Opinion Paper on Umbilical Cord Blood Banking.
Heidi Nicholl 19 June 2006
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News: No new eggs from bone marrow cells
A new US study has cast serious doubt on controversial research that suggested bone marrow stem cells can produce new eggs in adult mice.
Dr Jess Buxton 17 June 2006
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News: Sperm quality may decline as men age
A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that sperm quality may deteriorate as men age. The study, which involves a relatively small number of volunteer subjects, was conducted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Heidi Nicholl 17 June 2006
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Announcement: Alpha Conference Lucerne 15-17 September 2006
Alpha Scinetists in Reproductive Medicine is organising it's next conference in the beautiful Swiss town Lucerne.
Marc Van den Bergh 11 June 2006
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News: Testicle stem cell hope
UK researchers have been given the go-ahead to investigate the potential of human testicle stem cells to develop into other types of body tissue The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has licenced the team, based at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, to study the cells in order to find out if they are as versatile as stem cells isolated from early embryos.
Dr Jess Buxton 09 June 2006
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News: HFEA publishes new guide to infertility
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has published a new edition - in hard copy and online - of its annual 'Guide to Infertility'.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 09 June 2006
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News: Cash and sperm shortages threaten UK fertility services
The UK's North Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) has said that no new couples will be referred for IVF treatment until at least next April.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 09 June 2006
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News: Couple speak out about IVF mistake
A British couple have spoken to the press about the 'nightmare' they have gone through since a mistake was made during treatment they received at a Leeds fertility clinic six years ago.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 09 June 2006
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News: Couple speak out about IVF mistake
A British couple have spoken to the press about the 'nightmare' they have gone through since a mistake was made during treatment they received at a Leeds fertility clinic six years ago.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 09 June 2006
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