The majority of single women who use artificial insemination with donor sperm (DI) in order to conceive do so because they fear that they will never find a suitable partner with whom to have children, not because they have fertility problems. The finding was reported at the annual conference of...
Professor Hans Evers, the chairman of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), commented last week that treatment of male infertility should be the next area of reproductive medicine to be improved. Speaking before the ESHRE annual conference in Vienna, Professor Evers said that if scientists could find...
Research presented at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Vienna indicates that the parents of children born following the use of a surrogate have better parenting skills and show more warmth towards their children than those in non-surrogacy families. The research shows...
A poll commissioned by the UK Children's Society shows that the public is in favour of allowing people conceived from donor sperm to gain more information about their genetic parents. Over eighty per cent of the 1000 people surveyed believe that children born as a result of donated eggs or...
Fertility experts meeting at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Vienna have strongly criticised the contents of a bill to regulate assisted reproduction and related techniques that is currently before the lower house of the Italian parliament. The Italian bill has been described...
Italian and Israeli researchers have reported that they have successfully used gene therapy in conjunction with stem cell therapy to treat two children with an inherited immune system disorder. The research appears in the journal Science. The children in the study had a form of severe combined immunodeficiency disorder in...
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Reality check on reasons for IVF
by Dr Jess Buxton
Anyone following recent media coverage of infertility would be forgiven for thinking that most patients embarking on IVF treatment are 40-something women who simply didn't get around to having children in their more fertile years. The hype that accompanied the publication of Sylvia Ann Hewlett's book, 'Baby Hunger', in...