By Wendy Burch
I was out reporting in the field the other day, covering some sort of crime in the streets of Los Angeles, when a devoted viewer came up to say hello. After asking for an autograph and taking a ‘selfie,’ …
Month: July 2014
Fertility Clinics Need Fewer ‘Grade C Mistakes’
One in every 100 women who use IVF to conceive suffer an “adverse incident”, fresh data has revealed. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority found 500 to 600 mistakes were made in every 60,000 cycles of fertility treatments in the UK.
‘Generally Reassuring’ Findings on Fertility Drugs
Use of fertility drugs doesn’t appear to increase a woman’s long-term risk of breast, ovarian and uterine cancers, new research indicates.
First Global Tool Developed to Predict and Treat Menopause
Menopause is not the same for every woman although more than half of the Earth’s population will experience menopause if they live long enough. Professor Susan Davis and colleagues from the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University in Australia have developed the first simple tool that can predict the onset of menopause and recommend treatment for symptoms based on the person, the country they live in, and the availability of treatments locally.
The Latest News About Fertility at Every Age
Just when you’re leaning in to your life, you can start hearing it in the distance: the drumbeat of fertility anxiety. Your drive and ambition could be earning plenty of wins, but people still whisper that your biological clock is ticking and your ovaries are shriveling, so if you don’t lock down a baby daddy and procreate before your early 30s, you might never be able to.
Fertility Treatments May Increase The Risk Of Psychiatric Disorders In Children
Certain factors may increase the risk of psychiatric conditions in newborns. A recent study found that children born to women who underwent fertility treatments were at an 33 percent increased rate for developing certain behavioral health issues.
Coming to U.S. for Baby, and Womb to Carry It
Foreign Couples Heading to America for Surrogate Pregnancies
Future of Fertility Treatment: 7 Ways Baby-Making Could Change
More than three decades ago, researchers successfully combined sperm and egg in a lab dish to produce the first children born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), sometimes referred to as “test tube babies.” Although the technique seemed futuristic at the time, it has since become commonplace, and has now been used to conceive an estimated 5 million children worldwide.
Contraception Pill Could Mask Future Fertility Levels
New study suggests women who come off the contraceptive pill cannot get an accurate assessment of their fertility for months.
Freeze-Storage Egg Banking for Egg Donation Treatment
The rapid freezing technique of vitrification is set to revolutionise egg donation as a fertility treatment by enabling freeze-storage egg-banking. The cryopreservation of eggs was one of IVF’s continuing challenges until the widespread introduction of vitrification; the older slow freezing methods induced the formation of ice crystals, which could cause damage to several structures of the egg. Thus, as demand for egg donation increases as a treatment for age-related infertility, egg banking with vitrification can theoretically provide a large pool of donor eggs without the present need for collection, fertilisation and transfer in a “fresh” treatment cycle (in which the donor and recipient’s cycles are hormonally synchronised).