The results of a study focusing on samples of immature ovarian and ovum tissue taken from young cancer patients were presented in Helsinki during the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. The youngest patient whose specimens were collected prior to the introduction of chemotherapy (which can cause infertility), was a two
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As the average age American women give birth has risen in recent years, new data suggest a similar trend in the United Kingdom. For the first time since the post-World War II baby boom, British women over age 40 are having more babies than women under 20, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Read moreAfter a 5-year judicial battle, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has just lost its trial against a 60-year-old woman, who wished to use the frozen oocytes of her daughter who died of cancer in 2011 Hoping to become a mother by IVF, the young woman had frozen 3 oocytes while she was receiving
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When children learn at an early age that their parents used an egg donor, the disclosure process is easier than when the kids don’t hear the facts until they’re older, a recent study suggests. Researchers surveyed 72 parents of 66 children who had been conceived using donor eggs. The children, from 46 families, ranged in
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Nearly three out of four couples that begin fertility treatment will eventually become parents, long-term studies suggest. The analysis of nearly 20,000 Danish couples found 65% had children within three years and 71% within five years. Doctors, presenting their data at a fertility conference, said the odds were heavily influenced by age. But experts said
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Many ultraviolet (UV)-filtering chemicals commonly used in sunscreens interfere with the function of human sperm cells, and some mimic the effect of the female hormone progesterone, a new study finds. Results of the Danish study will be presented Friday at the Endocrine Society’s 98th annual meeting in Boston. “These results are of concern and might
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Portugal’s president has just vetoed a law authorizing surrogacy on June 7, 2016. The law modifying the conditions for recourse to medically assisted procreation (MAP) was passed in parliament last May 13th by a slim majority. The new law extends MAP to single women and to lesbian couples, without any stipulations for medical indications. It
Read moreThe editor-in-chief of one of the world’s leading reproductive medicine journals has attacked the rising use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for the treatment of infertility, following publication of the latest world report on assisted reproductive technologies (ART) [1] today (Saturday). The report in Human Reproduction shows that while ICSI use has levelled off in
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