Announcement: IVF and ICSI Training
Understanding and tailoring the courses to the needs of participants,Constantly upgrading one’s resources and capabilities,Staying focused and striving to make every participant
an expert in ART.
ivfworld 25 October 2007
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News: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society Refutes American Society Of Reproductive Medicine Opinion
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society Refutes American Society Of Reproductive Medicine Opinion -- States Preimplantation Genetic Screening Is Beneficial When Performed In Experienced Centers
PGDIS 23 October 2007
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News: ASRM Issues New Report on Preimplantation Genetic Testing
The Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine today issued the new practice committee opinion on the use of preimplantation genetic testing.
ASRM 17 October 2007
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News: ASRM Urges Caution, Strong Counseling for Women Seeking Egg Freezing
The Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine today issued a committee opinion saying that oocyte cryopreservation, or egg freezing, remains an experimental procedure that should not be offered or marketed as a means to defer reproductive aging.
ASRM 17 October 2007
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News: The Cost Effectiveness of IVF
Researchers today presented studies on the economics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies. One study found that adding an ART benefit did not greatly increase the cost of health insurance and another examined the cost/quality-adjusted life year ratio for ART treatment strategies.
ASRM 17 October 2007
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News: Gamete Donation – Donors and Offspring
Research from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine today revealed that egg donors are motivated both by a desire to help infertile couples and the compensation offered. Children of donors, and their parents, who attempted to find other off spring from the same sperm donor were most often motivated simply by curiosity.
ASRM 17 October 2007
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News: Advising Cancer Patients to Preserve their Fertility
Determining the need for information on fertility preservation and the extent to which that need is being fulfilled is a subject of international interest at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
ASRM 17 October 2007
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News: Clinical Trial Shows that Going to IVF after Fewer Artificial Insemination Cycles Results in a Shorter Average Time to Pregnancy
Today at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Dr. Richard Reindollar presented the results of a randomized clinical trial showing that an accelerated treatment track for unexplained infertility results in just as many patients becoming pregnant but in a shorter period of time, compared with the conventional treatment series.
ASRM 17 October 2007
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News: Egg Freezing and Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation are Safe for Offspring and Offer Advantages for Patients
Freezing eggs or ovarian tissue offers advantages to women undergoing ART who have extra eggs but prefer not to create and freeze extra embryos and to women at risk of losing ovarian function as a consequence of treatment for cancer.
ASRM 17 October 2007
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News: Effects of Infection on Sperm
Sexually transmitted diseases affect male fertility on the level of physiological function as well as on a molecular genetic level.
ASRM 17 October 2007
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News: Do Older Women Need More Embryos?
Several new research studies presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting tackled the question of how best to help older women seeking to have children.
ASRM 17 October 2007
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News: US Court rules that surrogate mother can keep child
Last week a Florida court settled a custody battle in favour of surrogate mother, Stephanie Eckard, who will retain custody of her five-month-old daughter.
MacKenna Roberts 17 October 2007
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Announcement: Genetics/ART courses
Courses announcement:
Clinical Genetics, 13-14 December 2007
4th Masters-level Assisted Reproduction Technology course, 12-15 May 2008
Steve Hicks 17 October 2007
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News: Single blastocyst transfer successful in women over 35
Californian researchers have reported that women over 35 can avoid multiple births by using an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) method that transfers only a single embryo
Katy Sinclair 14 October 2007
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News: Grandfather to donate sperm for son's child
A 72-year-old grandfather will be allowed to act as a sperm donor for his infertile son and daughter-in-law, effectively making any resulting child his father's biological half brother. Although theoretically not illegal, according to the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, is thought that this is the only time such a case has arisen the UK.
Ailsa Taylor 10 October 2007
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Announcement: Clinical Embryology Online Masters Deadline / Meet us at ASRM
Meet us at ASRM in Washington DC October 15th to the 17th 2007. Online Masters Degree in Clinical Embryology and Andrology (distance-learning program) offered by the The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine.
Helena Russell 09 October 2007
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News: Australians debate IVF social policy after 'wrongful birth' claim
Last week, following public outrage over the legal concept that a healthy baby might amount to 'damage', the Australian Medical Association (AMA) president, Dr Andrew Foote, condemned the recent unprecedented case before the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Supreme Court.
MacKenna Roberts 01 October 2007
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News: Sperm lawfully obtained from dying man unable to give consent
The parents of an Iowan man on life support and unable to give consent have been made to seek a court declaration that extracting his sperm for his fiancee's future use was lawful.
Antony Blackburn-Starza 01 October 2007
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Article: Reproductive toxicity of antibiotic streptomycin.
Embryo culture media are routinely supplemented with antibiotics to prevent bacterial growth during embryo culture. The most commonly used antibiotics being Penicillin and Streptomycin.
Rajvi H. Mehta 23 September 2007
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News: New Jersey court refuses to rule on when life begins
The New Jersey Supreme Court, in the case of Acuna v Turkish, last week refused to rule on the issue of when life begins in determining that a six to eight week old embryo is not considered a person under law.
Katy Sinclair 18 September 2007
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News: Cut-price IVF for stem cell research egg donors
Women who donate some of their eggs to stem cell research will receive half-price discounted IVF treatment - a £1,500 stipend reducing the costs of one cycle of IVF treatment from £3,000 - at the Newcastle Fertility Centre.
Mackenna Roberts 18 September 2007
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News: Lesbian mum sues over IVF
A lesbian couple is suing a doctor after one of them gave birth to twins instead of one child through IVF.
Livenews.com.au 18 September 2007
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Article: Single Embryo Transfer
Singleton pregnancy should be considered as the ideal goal of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. Recently techniques within the IVF field have made this goal more attainable, so how close are we?
Tyl H Taylor and Ilana Glassner 16 September 2007
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News: Fertility poll warns women leave motherhood too late
A fertility survey commissioned by RED magazine has warned that women are leaving attempts to conceive until after their 30th birthday, with the result that more than a third of all couples in Britain are experiencing fertility problems.
Katy Sinclair 10 September 2007
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News: New egg freezing service to be launched in the UK
Healthy British women can now to choose to freeze their eggs, giving them the opportunity to delay motherhood without risking pregnancy complications, according to the Sunday Times. The new service, aimed at career women and those waiting for the right partner, will be launched nationwide next month by two of the UK's leading fertility clinics: The Bridge Centre and Care Fertility.
Ailsa Taylor 03 September 2007
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