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New IVF technique has doubled success rate

A new technique that double the success rates of IVF may soon be offered in Britain for the first time.
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor, in San Francisco - telegraph.co.uk
Last Updated: 8:55PM GMT 09 Nov 2008
Oxford Fertility Unit has applied for a licence that would allow them to carry out sophisticated screening of embryos to look [...]

Ovary transplants could transform family life - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk

Ovary transplants could transform family lifeTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 12 Nov 2008The children from older mothers do great, the women are more settled, they are wiser and the kids are wonderful. People may think it's ethically unsound to …

IMPACT OF CHANGE ON PARENTING - PublicNet

IMPACT OF CHANGE ON PARENTINGPublicNet, UK - 14 Nov 2008Older mothers were more likely to feel less fulfilled and that they had less time for themselves. Mothers who had spent fewer years in formal education felt …

Overweight women more likely to miscarry - Times Online

Overweight women more likely to miscarryTimes Online, UK - 12 Nov 2008Older mothers are also more likely to have children with Down’s syndrome, the most common chromosomal disorder. In the new research, Dr Landres’s team …

Men have biological clock too, claim researchers - Telegraph.co.uk

Men have biological clock too, claim researchersTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 26 Oct 2008Although lower than the miscarriage rate for older mothers, which was more than twice that of younger mothers, the researchers still described it as …

The Good Egg

The Good Egg

The Sydney Morning Herald reports on egg-freezing. For many of us who have dealt with the biological clock quandary, freezing your eggs may prove to be the solution to that ticking problem.
Although not widely available in Australia yet, I’m expecting that when the Eggs-on_ice train hits town, there are going to be many women [...]