Accelerated fertility treatment leads to shortened time to pregnancy and cost savings

A major new trial recently published in the journal Fertility and Sterility shows that for couples beginning infertility treatments, an accelerated path to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) can offer a shorter time to pregnancy, cost savings of nearly $10,000, and a lowered risk of multiple births.
For the first time, these results demonstrate that the long held [...]

Lord Winston, Labels Egg Feezing As “Expensive Confidence

Lord Winston, emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London and pioneer of IVF, has criticized fertility clinics for over-hyping egg freezing services. In an interview with the Daily Mail newspaper he accuses providers of creating false optimism in the effectiveness of the procedure particularly where signing up patients for purely ’social’ reasons. Before [...]

Baby Oliver is now a Beacon of Hope for IVF patients

A British woman has become the first in the world to give birth using a new IVF test that promises to improve the chances of parenthood for infertile couples.
A boy, named Oliver, was born in July to a 41-year-old woman who had tried 13 cycles of IVF without success. She conceived after her eggs were [...]

US company offers celebrity ‘look-a-like’ sperm

A California-based fertility company is offering prospective parents a range of celebrity ‘look-a-like’ sperm donors. Cryobank, which is also planning to offer services in New York, allows customers to search through a database according to characteristics such as ethinicity and eye colour without revealing donors’ photographs. In addition, the company has now added features that [...]