Today, a study presented at the Annual Meeting of ESHRE provides strong evidence that freeze-all protocols are indeed associated with significantly improved IVF outcomes—especially in women over 35, a patient group rapidly becoming the largest and most challenging category of infertility patient. The results of the study were presented in Helsinki by Dr Karen Hunter Cohn from Celmatix, a US company working in fertility and women’s health.
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Trying to Conceive? Any Position Will Do – But it Does Help if You Orgasm
When it comes to getting pregnant, any sexual position will do, a leading fertility expert has claimed. And there is no need, as many women believe, to ‘cycle with their legs in the air’ afterwards. Allan Pacey, Professor of Andrology at Sheffield University, who advises couples on how best to conceive made his comments at the ESHRE fertility conference in Helsinki.
Mitochondrial DNA Levels as A Marker Of Embryo Viability In IVF
A new approach to embryo assessment described at this year’s Annual Meeting of ESHRE may be able to shed light on why so many apparently healthy embryos are not viable. The approach is based on the quantification of mitochondrial DNA found in the outermost layer of cells in a five-day old embryo. The combination of chromosome analysis and mitochondrial assessment may now represent the most accurate and predictive measure of embryo viability with great potential for improving IVF outcome.
IVF in Women Over 38: The Doctor’s Dilemma
It is a biological fact that female fertility declines with age – in assisted conception as in natural. Indeed, findings from a 12-year study reported today at the Annual Meeting of ESHRE by Dr Marta Devesa from the Hospital Universitaro Quiron-Dexeus in Barcelona, Spain, showed that in her own clinic cumulative live birth rates following IVF declined from 23.6% in women aged 38-39 years to 1.3% in those aged 44 and over.