News: Ban on fertility treatment for obese women proposed
Obese women should have fertility treatment withheld, according to a report from a leading group of Scottish doctors. Their recommendation is an attempt to reduce growing costs within the National Health Service (NHS), where resources are already over-stretched.
Zulehkha Waheed 10 April 2007
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News: UK couple request Alzheimer's embryo test
According to the Sunday Times newspaper, a UK clinic is requesting permission to test embryos in order to select those free from early onset Alzheimer's disease. Charl and Danielle de Beer are planning undergo IVF treatment in conjunction with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) at the Bridge Centre in London.
Dr Jess Buxton 07 April 2007
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News: High beef consumption during pregnancy may affect son's sperm count
Recent research published in the journal Human Reproduction found that men whose mothers had eaten a lot of beef during pregnancy were three times more likely to have a sperm count so low that they could be classed as sub-fertile.
Dr Laura Bell 07 April 2007
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Announcement: Research Instruments Ltd Announces FDA Marketing Clearance of its Saturn Laser for Assisted Hatching of Embryos
Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.--(PRESS RELEASE)?28 March 2007?Research Instruments Limited reported today that it has received FDA marketing
clearance for its Saturn Laser System. The Saturn is the
first non-contact laser device to be awarded marketing clearance for
laser-assisted hatching of human embryos in clinical applications which has a pilot laser to ensure accurate positioning of the beam.
Research Instruments Ltd 03 April 2007
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Announcement: Esther Riley Passing
THE STAFF OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE MOURN THE PASSING OF OUR CHIEF EMBRYOLOGIST ESTHER RILEY, B.S., T.S., (ABB) E.L.D.
Viewing services will be held on Friday, March 23rd, 2007 from 6pm to 8pm and Memorial services on Saturday, March 24th, 2007 at 3:00 p.m. at the Fred Hunter Funeral Home located at 2401 South University Drive, Davie, Florida.
The Entire Staff 22 March 2007
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News: Ultrasound predicts IVF outcome
A Dutch study has shown that ultrasound can be used to predict whether IVF is likely to be successful for a woman, by counting the number of egg-producing follicles in her ovaries.
Katy Sinclair 19 March 2007
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News: Los Angeles Clinic launches fertility programme for gay men
According to a Reuter's news report, a fertility clinic in Los Angeles, California, has announced that in response to overwhelming international demand, it will offer the first fertility programme especially designed to assist gay men to become parents.
Mackenna Roberts 19 March 2007
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Article: Embryo testing: Why drawing lines risks devaluing the disabled
It isn't uncommon, at international conferences, to hear praise for the UK's approach to regulating reproductive and genetic technologies. The cautious, incremental approach of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is often contrasted - favourably - with, for example, the rather dramatic oscillation between regulatory extremes seen in Italy, which had one of the most laissez faire approaches in Europe one day, and one of the most restrictive the next.
Dr Colin Gavaghan, Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics 13 March 2007
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News: Puberty hormone may help infertile women
Scientists at Imperial College, London have trialled a potential new treatment for infertility in healthy female volunteers.
Heidi Nicholl 13 March 2007
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News: Hot baths may reduce fertility in men
A small study conducted at the University of San Francisco has revealed that exposure to 'wet heat' is linked to a decrease in fertility in men.
Antony Blackburn-Starza 13 March 2007
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News: Overweight couples have difficulty conceiving
If one or both partners in a couple are overweight they are likely to have difficulty conceiving, a study published in the journal Human Reproduction has found.
Katy Sinclair 13 March 2007
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News: Low-fat dairy food may increase risk of infertility
New research published in the journal Human Reproduction has found that consuming low-fat dairy food may lead to a higher risk of infertility.
Dr Laura Bell 06 March 2007
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News: Study supports use of 'soft' IVF treatment
Women trying to have a baby using standard in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) techniques are spending money on unnecessary drugs that have harmful side-effects and which could be compromising their health, according to the authors of a new report published in the Lancet medical journal.
Zulehkha Waheed 06 March 2007
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News: IVF 'postcode lottery' continues
A report has revealed that couples receive varied IVF treatment across UK Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), despite guidelines issued by the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence in 2004 that all women between the age of 23 and 39 years old should receive three cycles of IVF on the NHS.
Katy Sinclair 06 March 2007
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News: HFEA allows 'altruistic' egg donation for research
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has decided to allow women to donate eggs for research, regardless of whether they are undergoing IVF treatment.
Antony Blackburn-Starza 26 February 2007
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News: IVF success improved by ultrasound embryo transfer
IVF is more likely to be successful if embryos are transferred with the use of ultrasound, rather than the traditional clinical touch method.
Katy Sinclair 24 February 2007
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News: New study links birth defects with fertility treatments
Contrary to some earlier findings, a large Canadian study links an increase in birth defects with babies born through fertility treatments.
MacKenna Roberts 18 February 2007
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News: Growth of international fertility treatment 'tourism'
An AP/Washington Times report has revealed that the market for fertility treatment tourism is booming as a solution to egg donor shortages, high private clinic costs and restrictive donor anonymity laws.
MacKenna Roberts 06 February 2007
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News: US patients debate future of frozen embryos
US patients using fertility services are facing a dilemma over the future of their spare embryos.
Katy Sinclair 06 February 2007
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News: Family balancing unethical, say US doctors
The Ethics Committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (ACOG) has said that helping patients to choose the sex of their offspring to avoid serious sex-linked genetic disorders is considered ethical for doctors, but gender testing simply for 'family balancing' is ethically untenable.
Zulehkha Waheed 06 February 2007
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News: Israeli court allows use of dead soldier's sperm
After a four-year battle, an Israeli court has ruled in favour of a family campaigning for the right to use their dead son's sperm in order to inseminate a women that he never knew.
Katy Sinclair 06 February 2007
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News: New York surgeons announce plans for womb transplant
Doctors based at the New York Downtown Hospital, have been given the go-ahead to begin screening women to undergo the first womb transplant in the US.
Antony Blackburn-Starza 26 January 2007
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News: HFEA under fire for involvment in 'trial by TV''
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has been heavily criticised for 'playing to the cameras' and jeopardising the fair trial of fertility expert, Mohamed Taranissi.
Antony Blackburn-Starza 26 January 2007
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News: Trans fats increase risk of infertility
The more trans fats a woman eats, the more susceptible she becomes to ovulation-related infertility, a recent study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston concluded.
MacKenna Roberts 23 January 2007
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Announcement: 2nd Congress International IVI
Ovarian Stimulation
? Androgens in ovarian stimulation
? IVF
? Embryo transfer
? Fertility Preservation
? Colateral Effects of Ovarian Stimulation
? Frequent Reproductive Diseases
? Stern Cells.
IVI 17 January 2007
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