A previously infertile woman has given birth to a healthy baby, after scientists discovered a way to beat the menopause by inducing ovaries to produce eggs.
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10 Things You’ve Always Wanted To Ask A Fertility Specialist
If you’re ready for a baby, but not sure that your body is cooperating, it may be time to consult a fertility specialist.
NASA Scientist Gives Birth Using Embryos on Ice for 19 Years
NASA research scientist Kelly Burke looks upon her babbling baby and ponders the unique reality that his biological siblings, created from the same embryo cycle and born to another family 2,500 miles away, will be of voting age at the time of his first birthday this November.
Abandoned Embryos: Clinics Ethically Free to Dispose of Thousands of Embryos Frozen in Time, Doctors’ Group Says
It is the most emotionally charged issue in assisted baby-making: how to “dispose” of the thousands of human embryos that sit frozen in time in fertility clinics across Canada, believed abandoned by the couples that created them.
Test-Tube Babies: A Simpler, Cheaper Technique?
Since the first test-tube baby was born more than three decades ago, in vitro fertilization has evolved into a highly sophisticated lab procedure. Now, scientists are going back to basics and testing a simpler and cheaper method.
Beauty Contest for Embryos Goes Hollywood to Boost Births
Nikica Zaninovic used to take embryos out of an incubator each day and photograph them under a microscope to determine which were most likely to produce a baby. He’d inspect the number of cells, the extent to which they’d fragmented, the shell’s thickness and any defects.
Jimmy Fallon and Wife Struggled with Infertility for Five Years
Jimmy Fallon and his wife welcomed a brand-new daughter less than a month ago, but he revealed that they spent years trying for a baby before it finally happened.
Women Become Pregnant Naturally After IVF
One in three Australian women who have their first baby with the help of infertility treatments become pregnant again without any assistance within two years.
One in three Australian women who have their first baby with the help of infertility treatments become pregnant again without any a
Fertility Doctors Get New Guidelines on Maximum Number of Embryos to Transfer
No more than a single embryo should be transferred at a time in most younger women undergoing assisted-baby making, according to new guidelines for the nation’s for-profit fertility industry aimed at minimizing multiple births.
Test Tube Baby Louise Brown Turns 35
Louise Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby, was born 35 years ago today, revolutionizing the field of reproductive medicine and giving infertile women hope that they could become mothers.