A renowned fertility clinic has carried out a scientific study which claims musical vibrations increase the success of IVF. Songs from the late soul legend such as ‘Can’t get enough of you baby’ have become the most streamed music through the iPods fitted in the incubators where embryos are developing.
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Benefits From Freeze-all Embryo Strategy in Older IVF Patients
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.
Endometrial Scratch Appears Beneficial in Couples Trying to Conceive
There is a much disputed claim that “injury” to the lining of the uterus — whether inadvertent or deliberate — increases the chance of embryo implantation and thus the chance of pregnancy in certain groups of women having IVF. The “injury” has usually been performed as a biopsy from the womb lining (endometrium), whose action is believed to cause a favourable inflammation (“scratch”) within the endometrium thereby making it more receptive to an implanting embryo. Indeed, the success of more complex uterine surgery in some studies has even been attributed to the scratch and not to the surgery itself.
Birthday Honours: Mitochondrial Disease Doctor Recognised
The doctor behind a groundbreaking IVF technique which prevents disabling genetic disorders from being passed on to future generations has been knighted.
Inside the ‘Black Box’ of Human Development
More recently, the IVF revolution has enabled early human embryos to be studied in unprecedented detail outside the body, but still gastrulation has remained a mystery. Technical limitations have meant that no one has been able to keep them alive much beyond nine days, about halfway to the key developmental stage when the simple ball of embryonic cells begins to take on the identity of a proper body plan, with a top and a bottom, and the first signs of the distinctive triple layer of tissues that form the disc‑shaped “gastrula”.
Overseas Fertility Clinics are Offering New Hope for Prospective Parents – But are They Trustworthy?
Last month, Nanfang Daily released a story about 43-year-old Li Duo (pseudonym), who already has a daughter but recently became obsessed with the notion of bearing a son to continue their family line. Considering the fact that gender selection is illegal in China – not to mention that, at 43, Li is already past her prime child-bearing years – it seemed like a pipe dream. Until, that is, she discovered that fertility clinics in Thailand offer IVF (in vitro fertilization), which would not only allow her to get pregnant at such a late age, but would allow her to choose the sex of her baby.
Indian Doctors Raise IVF Concerns After Woman in her 70s Gives Birth
Doctors in India have raised concerns about IVF treatment in the country, after a couple in their 70s had their first child after 46 years of marriage. Daljinder Kaur, who does not have a birth certificate but is thought be in her 70s, gave birth to a boy last month after two years of fertility treatment using donor eggs at a clinic in the northern state of Haryana.
How To Be A Data-Driven, Informed IVF Patient
Kudos to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology for undertaking the effort to give patients needing IVF the tools with which to make educated decisions. Together they have created the type of comprehensive patient resource that every patient group should have access to.
Infertility Linked to Higher Birth Defect Risk
As assisted reproductive technologies (ART) treatments have developed, treatments like in vitro fertilization (IVF) have become more accessible to a wider population. Accordingly, the number of women using fertility treatments to conceive has increased such that in 2012, roughly 1.5 percent of all liveborn infants in the United States were conceived using some method of ART.
In Vitro Fertilization Bill Would Define Embryos as Human Life
Jasha McQueen created four embryos with her
then-husband through in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 2007. Two of those embryos
became her twin sons, but the other two have become the subject of a lengthy
and grueling court battle when McQueen and her husband started divorce
proceedings in 2010.