Blog posts from June 2010

Test-tube babies 'twice as likely' to suffer birth defects

30 June, 2010

Test-tube babies are almost twice as likely to suffer birth defects than children born naturally, according to the largest study of its kind.Babies conceived through IVF have a significantly higher risk of being born with heart problems and malfor...

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Researchers Develop Test to Identify 'Best' Sperm

30 June, 2010

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered a method to select sperm with the highest DNA integrity in a bid to improve male fertility. The method is comparable to that of the egg's natural selection abilities, according to the stud...

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Older women freeze their eggs to wait for Mr Right

29 June, 2010

Failure to find 'Mr Right' is driving growing numbers of older women to put motherhood on ice.Women in their 30s and 40s, who once would have settled for second best, are freezing their eggs while they continue their search for a man who i...

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Women aged 40 and over could be given free IVF treatment

27 June, 2010

Women aged 40 and over could be given IVF treatment on the NHS for the first time, following a review by the health rationing watchdog.The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is considering scrapping its controversial age ...

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Sperm donation: rights of donor offspring to know donors identity

25 June, 2010

The debate surrounding the rights and welfare of donor offspring has been gaining momentum over the past few years, and a growing number of countries have already banned anonymous sperm donation to ensure the right of offspring to access informati...

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Dating site offering 'Beautiful baby' virtual egg and sperm bank

22 June, 2010

A controversial dating website, with a strict ban on ugly and fat people, has launched what it's calling a 'beautiful baby service', a virtual egg and sperm bank for people who want to have attractive babies.This same website kicked ou...

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Father's day for Two Dads

20 June, 2010

Do you ever wonder what father’s day is like in a house with two dads? In a home with gay parents raising children, the emphasis is on Father’s day being about ‘Fathers’ or parents rather than on an individual.Father’...

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Research suggests link between IVF and Autism

17 June, 2010

The first "test tube baby" was born in 1978. With advances in reproductive science, an estimated one percent of all American babies are now born each year through in vitro fertilization (IVF). But IVF and other assisted fertility treatme...

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First US study of attitudes towards donor conception published

13 June, 2010

A study into the attitudes of donor-conceived siblings has been published in the US. Said to be the first empirical study of its kind in the US, the report's authors - from The Commission on Parenthood's Future - surveyed nearly 500 donor-...

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Fertility Road Magazine launched across the UK and Europe

09 June, 2010

JUNE 1, 2010PRESS RELEASEVIBRATION MEDIA UNVEIL GROUNDBREAKING MARKET-LEADING FERTILITY TITLECampaign media specialists VIBRATION MEDIA have just announced the launch of FERTILITY ROAD magazine, already installed as Europe’s number one ferti...

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