Results of a long-term follow-up study of fertility drugs suggest that there is no excessive risk of breast and ovarian cancer in patients who have undergone fertility treatment. The study was conducted on fertility patients at the Soroka University Hospital in Beer-Sheeba in Israel between 1960 and 1984, and the...
Women undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) could increase their chances of becoming pregnant if treated with low doses of aspirin, according to a study published in the May issue of Fertility and Sterility. Researchers at the CER Medical Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina, compared a group of women who took...
A study has found that an experimental drug which normalises insulin use in the body could be the basis of a treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome, a common cause of infertility. Affecting between 5 and 10 percent of women of reproductive age, the condition leads to cyst filled ovaries and...
A woman left unable to bear children because of a medical blunder has won a landmark damages claim to pay for a surrogate birth. Patricia Briody, 45, spent the last ten years battling with both the medical and legal establishments through a series of court hearings - even, at one stage...
A British doctor has submitted an application to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the UK's regulatory body, to carry out embryo splitting. The notorious Paul Rainsbury, consultant gynaecologist at the BUPA Roding Hospital in Essex, argues that embryo splitting would allow a woman to increase the number of...
The maverick Italian fertility specialist, Severino Antinori, has announced that he intends to deliver IVF millennium babies by caesarian section. Dr Antinori said last week that he had helped 14 women conceive by in vitro fertilisation techniques and said that he hoped to make the first incision within two seconds...
This week's BioNews includes the story of a New York woman, Donna Fasano, who was implanted not only with her own embryos, but also those of another woman. The result was a twin pregnancy - one twin being the genetic child of Mrs Fasano and the other child being the genetic...
A mother who gave birth to another woman's child after a mix-up at a New York fertility clinic has decided to hand the baby back to its biological parents. Donna Fasano gave birth three months ago to twin boys - one white and one black - after her fertility...
An increasingly popular fertility treatment used in cases of male infertility could lead to a slight increase in genetic abnormalities in resulting offspring. It may also affect the cellular machinery inside sperm cells during fertilisation, according to a study of the technique in animals. However, experts say the results are...
This week's BioNews includes the story of Pauline Lyon, the 56-year old woman who has just given birth to her second IVF child. The news of the birth has prompted a familiar debate about the rights and wrongs of post-menopausal women having children. But another theme has emerged in...
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