FERTILITY

Are sperm counts declining around the world?

Michael Cook | 14 April 2018 | Comments

tags: fertility, male fertility, sperm counts

The fall appears to be strong and continuing

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Ireland to permit PGD

Xavier Symons | 20 January 2018 | Comments

tags: fertility, fertility treatment, ireland, ivf, pgd

The Irish government will soon introduce detailed fertility treatment laws.

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Should students learn about declining fertility?

Michael Cook | 15 April 2016 | Comments

tags: fertility, fertility education, IVF, UK

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The risks of freezing

Xavier Symons | 29 August 2015 | Comments

tags: egg freezing, fertility

The treasurer of a peak international fertility body has warned women not to rely on egg freezing to have children.

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Interview: Francoise Baylis on the ethics of social egg freezing

Xavier Symons | 12 March 2015 | Comments

tags: egg freezing, family planning, fertility, social infertility

The West needs to rethink egg freezing, says Canadian bioethicist Francoise Baylis.

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Egg-freezing doctor learns from Tupperware

Michael Cook | 22 November 2014 | Comments

tags: egg freezing, fertility, IVF

Perhaps egg freezing doctors have learned from Antarctic explorer Shackleton that highlighting dangers may not discourage clients.

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The ethics of transgender fertility

Michael Cook | 05 September 2014 | Comments

tags: fertility, transgender, transgender children

This month’s issue of LGBT Health contains a fascinating interview with two Boston fertility specialists who cater for gays and lesbians who want to become parents.

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Fertility awareness campaigns backfire

Michael Cook | 17 May 2014 | Comments

tags: abortion, contraception, fertility

The unintended consequence of vigorous campaigns to remind women that their fertility declines with age may be a rise in the number of abortions among women over 40.

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Researchers eager to create parentless embryos with stem cells

Michael Cook | 13 December 2012 | Comments

tags: fertility, iPS cells, stem cells

An international fertility conference early next year will teach participants how to create embryos with stem cells.

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Putting menopause on ice

Michael Cook | 06 July 2012 | Comments

tags: fertility, ovary freezing, social infertility

Women could remain fertile indefinitely if they freeze slices of ovaries, IVF doctors believe.

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Would-be grandparents pay for their daughters’ egg freezing

Jared Yee | 19 May 2012 | Comments

tags: egg freezing, fertility, US

More and more baby-boomers, desperate to have grandchildren, are pushing daughters to freeze their eggs, the New York Times reports.

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Fertility drugs linked to cancer in children

Jared Yee | 28 April 2012 | Comments

tags: fertility

Fertility drugs could more than double the risk of offspring developing childhood leukaemia, academics cautioned this week.

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A new industry – fertility finance

Jared Yee | 10 March 2012 | Comments

tags: commercialization, fertility, IVF, US

Julie Barth, was over the moon when her doctor told her she might be able to get pregnant via IVF. But the Illinois doctor didn’t stop there – he referred her to a “fertility finance” company which lent her US$5,000 at an interest rate of 7.99% to help pay for the $24,000 procedure. The case reveals a new trend in the commercialisation of fertility.

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

Jared Yee | 08 July 2011 | Comments

tags: fertility, Sweden

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

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High doses of IVF drugs could cause Down Syndrome

Jared Yee | 08 July 2011 | Comments

tags: Down syndrome, fertility, IVF

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.

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Woman to donate womb to her daughter

Jared Yee | 17 June 2011 | Comments

tags: fertility, organ donation, organ transplantation

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.

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More confirmation of rapid fertility decline after 30

Michael Cook | 29 January 2010 | Comments

tags: fertility

Only 10% of eggs remains at 30