Fertility

Swedish researchers find new method to avoid twins while maintaining high live birth rates

Jared Yee | 08 July 2011

Swedish researchers have found a reliable way of deciding whether one or two embryos should be transferred during fertility treatment.

High doses of IVF drugs could cause Down Syndrome

Jared Yee | 08 July 2011

High doses of drugs used to stimulate the ovaries of older women undergoing fertility treatment may result in failed pregnancies and babies with conditions such as Down’s syndrome.

Woman to donate womb to her daughter

Jared Yee | 17 June 2011

Sara Ottoson, 25, of Stockholm, Sweden, could be the first woman to bear a child using the same womb in which she was conceived and carried to term.

More confirmation of rapid fertility decline after 30

Michael Cook | 29 January 2010

Only 10% of eggs remains at 30