Dr Robert Norman
Sep 3, 2007

Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) has come a long way since the early 1980s when a few Australian Universities and hospitals started their journey with IVF and associated technologies. Many couples went through numerous cycles of IVF without success while the clinical and scientific techniques were developed.

The first pregnancy was in the early days of 1980 at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne and was followed by more...

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November 3, 2007

Boston – A report published in the November issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology has elaborated on the benefits of changes in lifestyle and diet for women suffering ovulatory disorders, whose risk of infertility reduced by 80%, in comparison to women who did not make any of those changes to their diet and lifestyle.

The study was led by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and did not examine risk associated with other kinds of...

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While surfing the Internet, I found the following article and I wanted to share it with the readers of my blog.

THURSDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News)
Although it's a well known fact that heavy smoking can hurt your chances of concieving, I believe that it never hurts to reiterate good information. If you thought all the risks of cigarette smoking were already known, think again. New research finds that heavy smoking impairs women's fertility by reducing the odds that a fetus...

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Daily Mail
David Wilkes
16th January 2008

She had given up hope of ever having a baby. Trudi Siviter had only half an ovary - and even that was not working properly. After cancer of the cervix as a teenager, two ectopic pregnancies and three failed attempts at IVF, Mrs Siviter and her husband thought it was impossible for her to have children.

Doctors agreed, and she was ready to have a hysterectomy. But three months before she was due to have the procedure,...

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From The Times
Ruth Deech

This proposal to change IVF law is misconceived. Doesn't a child need a father? Since in vitro fertilisation was first regulated in 1990 doctors have been required to consider the welfare of the baby, including “the need of that child for a father”. This is one of the few ethical principles in IVF law and has served as a reminder that the welfare of the child is more important than the wishes of the would-be parents.

But no longer,...

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