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Dawn French calls for IVF treatment increase

keyboardsleeper keyboardsleeper 101 days ago at 14:46 0 comments

Dawn French is urging health chiefs in Britain to provide unlimited IVF treatment for childless couples, after enduring the "heartbreaking" treatments herself. The Harry Potter star went through several rounds of IVF in the 1980s in a bid to get pregnant (with her now ex-husband Lenny Henry). IVF miscarriage ...

IVF doctor sued for millions

keyboardsleeper keyboardsleeper 102 days ago at 18:03 0 comments

An IVF doctor in Australia who was involved in the conception of a child affected by a genetic disorder is being sued for 'wrongful birth' by the childs' parents. Keeden Waller was born following IVF in 2000 but four days afterwards had a stroke which caused permanent brain damage resulting in ...

Adoption scam and trafficking

keyboardsleeper keyboardsleeper 115 days ago at 22:59 0 comments

Eleven Irish couples caught up in an alleged adoption scam in Mexico have been left devastated by the affair. While the lawyer at the centre of the baby trafficking plot remains on the run, the families who returned home last weekend have insisted they believed they were acting legally. Trafficking ...

Three person IVF consultation

keyboardsleeper keyboardsleeper 119 days ago at 20:49 0 comments

So-called "three-person IVF" replaces defective genetic material in the egg to stop genetic diseases being passed from mother to child in order to eliminate rare mitochondrial diseases. Inherited defects Mitochondria can be found within almost every human cell, and provide the energy they need to function, much like a ...

IVF method may reduce multiple births and increase success

keyboardsleeper keyboardsleeper 134 days ago at 18:21 0 comments

Using an advanced imaging technique, researchers are now able to track movements inside the egg during stimulation when the egg is fertilized. The new technique may increase success rates of In vitro fertilization and reduce the number of multiple births. Results of the study were published in the journal Fertility ...

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