Australian company Monash IVF, a specialist in in vitro fertilization (IVF), has been sued by 700 former patients who were part of a genetic screening program for destroying their embryos. According to the lawsuit, Monash IVF, as well as the companies Repromed and [...]
The risk of hypertensive disorders in an IVF pregnancy is not a new topic, but a systematic review published by BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth on June 26, 2021 (read HERE) provides new evidence in this regard. IVF pregnancy hypertensive disorders [...]
French President Emanuel Macron has called for public consultation, read HERE. to make changes to the current French legislation that have bioethical implications. One of the issues with more public concerns was to facilitate IVF to lesbian women. Lesbian IVF [...]
In an excellent review published in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, entitled “Is it time to establish age restrictions in ART?” (assisted reproductive technologies) the authors address a growing modern-day medical and ethical challenge. The increasing social trend [...]
Until now, the use of the remaining IVF embryos for scientific research did not consider the consent of gamete donors when it is the case. While we disagree with the use of human embryos for investigating because it involves their [...]
IVF children risks in the rise The possible negative effects of assisted reproduction techniques (see HERE), for mother and child, must be informed by Clinics to their eventual clients. According to an article, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Placide [...]
How is it possible? Could it indicate that a diagnosis of the couple’s infertility must be required before starting an assisted procreation process? A recent study published in Fertility and Sterility evaluated the rate of twin pregnancies – both monozygotic (identical [...]
Overall, the pregnancy rate for IVF (in our opinion the more relevant rate) has not improved in Europe, it is around 35% The 33rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) has just been held [...]
PGD reduces the live birth rates when used with IVF. It entails undeniable manipulation of embryos, which if avoided is ethically favourable. There is no doubt that a medical and ethical objective is to improve the effectiveness of in vitro [...]
A recent study in Fertility and Sterility (Fertil Steril, 101; 1321-1325, 2014) that included 106,666 children born through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) between 2000 and 2010 in the United Kingdom found a tendency for more boys [...]
Performing the embryo transfer in a cycle may increase the chances of success in achieving a pregnancy, requiring embryo freezing, an outcome that poses new dilemmas. Introduction In its July 2014 edition, the journal Fertility and Sterility published three studies [...]
A medical and ethical issue is to determine the efficacy of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) following one or several fertilisation cycles. In other words, the likelihood of a woman giving birth to a live child after three or more fertilisation cycles in [...]
