News: Call to screen all IVF embryos for abnormalities
Testing embryos for chromosomal abnormalities before they are returned to the womb can dramatically improve the 'take home baby rate' for some patients, according to a US fertility doctor.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 29 May 2005
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News: New fertility treatment regulation proposed for Ireland
The Irish Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction (CAHR) has issued a report suggesting ways in which assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) should be regulated in Ireland.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 29 May 2005
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News: 'Yes' votes urged in Italian fertility law referendum
Monica Belluci, the Italian actress who played Mary Magdalane in 'The Passion of the Christ', has told newspapers that she strongly supports a 'yes' vote in next month's referendum on Italy's tough fertility laws.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 29 May 2005
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News: New 'infertility molecule' found
Scientists from the US have discovered an 'infertility molecule' that affects whether embryos implant in the womb. Working on mice, the scientists have found that females lacking the molecule, known as a lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) receptor, have difficulty conceiving.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 12 May 2005
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News: New rules for gay sperm donors to be introduced in US
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is introducing new rules about who can donate sperm. Men that have had homosexual sex within the five years prior to them wanting to make an anonymous sperm donation will be prevented from doing so, as the FDA says that gay men are collectively more likely to be HIV-positive than other men.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 12 May 2005
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News: Human eggs grown using 'ovary stem cells'
US researchers have managed to grow human eggs in the laboratory, using cells scraped from the surface of ovaries.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 12 May 2005
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News: Woman pregnant with frozen egg twins
A British woman is expecting the country's first 'frozen egg' twins, it was revealed last week. The 36-year-old woman is said to be five months pregnant, following the use of fertility treatments that included the freezing of one of her eggs.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 12 May 2005
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Announcement: MediCult Scientific Symposium
Sunday,June 19,2005
Hotel Scandic Copenhagen
H. Ingolf Nielsen 03 May 2005
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News: Call to track health of embryo test babies
All centres carrying out preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) should be following up the resulting babies to track any long term effects on their health, a UK doctor has said.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 29 April 2005
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News: Law Lords back 'saviour siblings'
he UK's House of Lords has ruled that the decision taken by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to allow the Hashmi family to try to create a 'saviour sibling' was lawful.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 29 April 2005
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News: Australia to cut IVF funding
The Australian federal government is planning to cut back on funding for IVF in its budget next month. It is considering placing a cap on the number of Medicare-funded IVF treatments to a maximum of three for women over 42 and three per year for women below that age.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 29 April 2005
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News: Lesbians plan IVF to create a 'shared' baby
A lesbian couple are planning to use IVF to create a 'shared baby', the UK press has reported. Hayley Marlow and Vicky Hill want to have one of Ms Hill's eggs fertilised, using donor sperm, but to then implant any resulting embryo into Ms Marlow's womb.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 26 April 2005
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Announcement: A New Option-In Vitro Maturation of Human Oocytes IVM??
May 20-21, 2005, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Warwick, Rhode Island
Shelley W. Amster 09 April 2005
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Announcement: WiCell adds training session
WiCell Research Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, announces an additional sessions of its "Introduction to Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture Methods" course.
Lynn Alford Schmidt 08 April 2005
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Announcement: Advancing the ART of Human Reproduction: Physiology and Technology
May 12-15, 2005 Miami, Florida
Carole Chisholm 08 April 2005
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News: Smoking cuts chances of IVF success
Women undergoing IVF treatment who smoke are much less likely to have a baby than non-smokers, Dutch researchers say.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 08 April 2005
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News: Donor anonymity abolished in UK
British people conceived using donated egg, sperm or embryos will be able to ask for identifying information about the donor when they reach the age of 18, following a law change that came into force on 1 April 2005.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 06 April 2005
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News: Long waits for free fertility treatment
As the deadline for the partial implementation of guidelines recommending free fertility treatment for patients in England and Wales passed last week, a new survey reveals that many couples are still facing lengthy waits.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 06 April 2005
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News: Barcodes to stop IVF mix-ups?
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is considering the labelling of all embryos, eggs and sperm with 'barcodes' or electronic identification tags, in a bid to prevent mistakes during fertility treatment.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 06 April 2005
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News: Fears over UK egg and sperm donor shortages
British fertility doctors say that a forthcoming law ending anonymity for egg and sperm donors will worsen the current donor shortage in the UK, and will also lead to an increase in patients seeking treatment abroad.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 03 April 2005
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News: <U>Advanced Workshop in Preimplantation Genetics</U>
<b><font color=red>Multiple displacement amplification, minisequencing and array CGH: a new era in preimplantation genetics
18th May 2005 Glaziers Hall, London Bridge, London (prior to the Sixth International Symposium on Preimplantation Genetics)</font></b>
Prof Alan H Handyside 29 March 2005
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News: UK committee split over reproductive technology report
The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (STC) is deeply divided over its inquiry into Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 29 March 2005
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News: Belgian team has second ovarian transplant success
Researchers at the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, say that a second woman there has had a successful ovarian tissue transplant.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 29 March 2005
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News: Many American women would choose their baby's sex
A survey of 561 American women undergoing treatment for infertility shows that 41 per cent would choose the sex of their baby, if sex selection was offered at no additional cost.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 29 March 2005
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Announcement: NIH sponsored research on oocyte quality
NIH sponsored research award on comparison of monkey/human oocyte quality
Dr. Carol Brenner 26 March 2005
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