Archive for the ‘Fertility’ Category
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill started its journey through the House of Commons, and leading fertility patient organisations are calling for the government to look again at the issue of surrogacy law. "Patients conceiving through surrogacy suffer serious legal difficulties" says leading fertility law expert Natalie Gamble of ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Hispanic women in the U.S. have higher fertility rates than non-Hispanic women, and unmarried Hispanic women born in the U.S. are more likely to have children than single immigrant Hispanic and non-Hispanic women, according to an analysis released on Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center, the AP/Hartford Courant reports (Gamboa, ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Young women would accept age-based screening for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia, but would want this test to be offered to everyone, rather than to people 'singled out' according to their sexual history.In the study, published in the BioMed Central open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, the Australian women interviewed ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Spurred by recent research, California fertility specialists are edging away from a traditional and well-known infertility treatment -- artificial insemination -- saying newer and improving in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology tends to cost less and work far better in the long run, ultimately saving patients time, money and ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Bonaventura Reproductive Medicine announced it will offer the Repromedix's PlanAhead test, an innovative blood test that provides an assessment of a woman's egg supply by combining multiple factors including the measurement of ovary-related hormones AMH, Inhibin B, and FSH. The window of opportunity for a woman to have children ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Women planning to delay motherhood could soon be able to take a blood test to predict their age at menopause to help them estimate how many years of fertility they have left.Queensland University of Technology statistician Professor Malcolm Faddy, from QUT's School of Mathematical Sciences, is co-author of a study ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Clare Brown Chief Executive of Infertility Network UK and Chair of the National Infertility Awareness Campaign (NIAC) said 'I am delighted that the RCN have overwhelmingly supported this resolution. The fertility nurses probably have more contact with patients than anyone and are best placed to understand the impact which infertility ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Professor Christine Mummery, one of the world's leading heart stem cell experts, honoured the memory of Dame Anne McLaren in the keynote lecture of the inaugural UK National Stem Cell Network Science Meeting in Edinburgh. Dr McLaren was an early pioneer of the study of embryonic germ cells and her ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
This year's National Infertility Day (NID) conference recognises 30 years of IVF by welcoming as our opening speaker Professor Robert Edwards, who alongside his late colleague Sir Patrick Steptoe was one of the pioneers of IVF. In addition we are delighted to also welcome Professor Andre Van Steirteghem, the pioneer ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
There's been a heated response to plans to update the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act which governs all aspects of the artificial creation of embryos for fertility treatment and their use in research. As the debate unfolds in the media, MRC Chief Executive Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, speaks out ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Polar body diagnosis can make artificial fertilization more successful, according to Katrin and Hans van der Ven and Markus Montag of Bonn University Clinic, writing in the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105[11]: 190-6).If the two polar bodies in an egg cell are examined, it ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
The Chicago Tribune on Wednesday examined issues associated with egg and sperm donation ahead of the first national conference to discuss the creation of a registry of such donors in the U.S. Australia, Sweden and the United Kingdom maintain registries of egg and sperm donors. In the U.S., organizations that ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Feb.8 -- Women undergoing in vitro fertilization can increase their chances of becoming pregnant by up to 65 percent if they also have acupuncture, a preliminary study suggests.About 10 percent to 15 percent of couples have difficulty conceiving, and many opt for in vitro fertilization, in which a woman's ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Muslims, as well as many Christians, MPs, doctors and parents, are very concerned about the new EMBRYO BILL, which will shortly be voted on in the House of Commons. The bill, called The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, will if enacted allow for many immoral, inhumane and undesirable procedures and ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The healthcare implications of being born premature are much broader and reach further into adulthood than previously thought, according to a long-term study of more than a million men and women by Duke University and Norwegian researchers.Preterm birth contributes to several long-term quality of health issues, including lower educational achievement, ...
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