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).
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After 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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A woman in the USA who acted as a surrogate for a single man, and gave birth to triplets, has taken her claim for custody of at least one of the children to an appeals court. Melissa Cook agreed to act as a surrogate for the man, known as CM, in 2015 using his sperm
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A rare genetic mutation reduces the risk of having a heart attack by one-third, a study has found. The mutation, which substantially lowers levels of non-HDL cholesterol – a marker for heart-disease risk – is already being investigated as potential drug target for preventing heart disease. ‘[This is] an important and previously unknown mechanism for modulating
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As reported by the agency “Xinhua” on Thursday 29 of October China ends “one – child policy”, allowing families have two children. According to the agency every family in China can have 2 children. Demographical “one – child” policy was accepted in China in 1970s. It touches the most of the Chinese families with the
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