News: Research shows surrogacy fears unfounded
Research presented at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Vienna indicates that the parents of children born following the use of a surrogate have better parenting skills and show more warmth towards their children than those in non-surrogacy families.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 03 July 2002
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News: Poll on donors favours information
A poll commissioned by the UK Children's Society shows that the public is in favour of allowing people conceived from donor sperm to gain more information about their genetic parents.
Kirsty Horsey 03 July 2002
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News: Italy on its way to strict assisted reproduction laws
Following a 'long and controversial debate', the Italian Government has approved a draft law stating, among other things, that people who use assisted reproduction technologies in Italy will not be allowed to use donor sperm, eggs or embryos, and that embryo research will be prohibited. Embryos will only be able to be created for implantation into the womb.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 16 June 2002
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News: Gene clues to male infertility and testicular cancer
Research in mice has yielded another possible genetic explanation for male infertility and a link to testicular cancer. A team led by Haifan Lin, a professor of cell biology at Duke University Medical Center, US, has discovered that a gene in mice - called miwi - is linked to infertility. The study is published in the journal Developmental Cell.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 11 June 2002
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News: Low-fat fertility risk
A fertility specialist from the US has warned that women who live on low-fat diets could be at a higher risk of infertility.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 02 June 2002
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News: More information on donors requested
High Court action has begun in the UK in which a woman and a child born from donor insemination claim they have a right to know more about their biological fathers.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 02 June 2002
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Article: Should egg and sperm donors remain anonymous?
Should people conceived through egg, embryo or sperm donation be able to find out the identity of their biological parents?
Dr Jess Buxton 22 May 2002
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News: Hope for IVF success rates
A team of scientists from the University of York and doctors from Leeds General Infirmary, UK, have developed a new embryo selection procedure which may one day improve success rates in IVF procedures.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 14 May 2002
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News: Canada finalises ART legislation
Anne McLellan, Canadian Minister of Health, last week introduced a comprehensive bill on assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs) to the Canadian parliament.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 14 May 2002
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News: Improving on nature's success rates?
Commentary on 'Hope for IVF success rates'.
Dr Jess Buxton 14 May 2002
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News: Embryonic stem cells: Where to next?
There has been many significant recent advances in embryonic stem cells. The question remains however as to the ultimate usefulness of this technology.
Dr Peter Hollands 08 May 2002
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News: Tick Tock...
The results of a study published in the May issue of the journal Human Reproduction show that both male and female fertility begins to decline earlier than was previously believed.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 08 May 2002
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Article: The changing role of the clinical embryologist: Are we getting a fair deal?
The role of the clinical embryologist has changed in many significant ways since the profession began.
Dr Peter Hollands 24 April 2002
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News: Multiple birth costs should be met by clinics, says Deech
Ruth Deech, former Chair of the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has said that fertility clinics ought to pay towards the costs of twins and triplets born as a result of fertility treatments.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 16 April 2002
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News: Surrogacy custody case must go ahead in US
A UK High Court judge ruled last week, reversing an earlier decision, that a British woman who entered a surrogacy arrangement and bore twins intended to be raised by an American couple must go back to the US to pursue her custody battle.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 16 April 2002
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News: Deaf lesbians choose to try for deaf child
An American lesbian couple have become the parents of children that have been labelled as the world's first 'designer deaf children', provoking criticism from many directions.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 16 April 2002
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News: Chinese transplant ovary between sisters
Chinese doctors have announced that they have successfully transplanted a whole ovary, the first time that such a procedure has been attempted in humans.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 09 April 2002
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News: Italy to debate assisted reproduction legislation
The Italian Parliament was presented with a bill on assisted reproduction last week. Some of the provisions of the bill are thought to be likely to 'provoke one of Italy's biggest political battles this season'.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 02 April 2002
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News: ART children doing fine
A follow-up study of 400 families from across Europe who used assisted reproduction techniques (ARTs) to have their children shows that being created by an 'artificial' method of conception does not have a negative effect on children, as compared with children from families created either naturally or by adoption.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 25 March 2002
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News: ICSI children do not show any increased risk of major malformations and neonatal complications
Neonatal data on a cohort of 2889 infants born after ICSI (1991?1999) and of 2995 infants born after IVF (1983?1999).
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Human Reproduction 06 May 2002
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News: ART children doing fine
A follow-up study of 400 families from across Europe who used assisted reproduction techniques (ARTs) to have their children shows that being created by an 'artificial' method of conception does not have a negative effect on children, as compared with children from families created either naturally or by adoption.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 25 March 2002
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News: No need to panic over IVF baby studies
Commentary on 'IVF and ICSI linked to birth defects and low birth weight'.
Dr Jess Buxton 12 March 2002
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News: IVF and ICSI linked to birth defects and low birth weight
Two studies of babies conceived using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) were published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. One of the studies reports that children have an increased risk of birth defects and the other shows that low birth weights are more common in these children.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 12 March 2002
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News: Saudi Doctors transplant womb
Doctors in Saudi Arabia reported last week that they had performed the world's first human uterus transplant, raising hopes for childless couples whose only chance of a baby might be to use a surrogate.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 12 March 2002
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News: HFEA makes tissue typing decision
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has given permission to an IVF clinic to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in order to select an embryo free from disease, and that will be a genetic match for an already existing child.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 01 March 2002
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