A lesbian couple has started the UK’s first fertility clinic exclusively for homosexual couples. It will help match parents with sperm donors, egg donors and surrogates. “We wanted to set up something where we would act as a go-between and where couples could meet potential donors face-to-face to work out how they would work things ...
Having trouble getting pregnant? Why not invite a clown into your bedroom? A study in an IVF fertility centre looked at women who had seen a clown performance shortly after embryo transfer and those who hadn’t, and found that there was double the chance of conception for those who’d had their funny bones tickled. What ...
A couple in Australia has been legally denied the right to have a girl child by choice. They have three sons and did have a daughter who sadly died as an infant. They are hoping to replace the girl who died and have gone as far as aborting twin boys. They are now fighting for ...
IVF, or in vitro fertilization, is all over the news these days, and there’s hardly a person who doesn’t know about assisted conception. But it wasn’t always this way. It used to be that infertile couple either had to adopt or just never have children. With up to ten percent of all couples being infertile, ...
The current trend of women delaying childbirth until their 30s and even 40s on a regular basis has impacts for society as a whole. One of these may be that we will evolve to have children naturally at a later age. Personally, I’m skeptical. Researchers at the University of Sheffield studied marriage and birth trends since the ...
The problem with biological clocks is that for all their tick-tick-ticking, you never know when they will go off. That dilemma is a thing of the past as doctors can now reveal when a women will become infertile, and when they will go through menopause. This discovery will change the world, just wait and see. ...
Because natural pregnancy is inefficient, within 10 years all couples will be using IVF to have kids, scientists say. Yet more evidence that their keen understanding of human nature likely led to wedgies and swirlies at school. Sex will be relegated to a leisure activity, much like horseback riding or smoking pot. Of course, by ...
With women delaying children into their late 30s and early 40s infertility is becoming more and more of an issue for couples to deal with. Dr. Sherman Silber, a fertility expert, is exploring a new way to battle infertility: freezing ovarian tissue.
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