Is IVF overused, ask researchers
Hard questions must be asked about the steep rise in commercial IVF around the world, say researchers in the BMJ. Hard questions need to be...
It’s more expensive, unnecessary and unhealthier: so why do IVF clinics prefer ICSI?
Despite complaints from experts, more and more IVF clinics are using intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Despite complaints from experts, more and more IVF clinics are...
Retiring head of UK fertility watchdog warns of IVF pain
The retiring head of the UK's fertility watchdog has painted a bleak picture of the world of IVF in a column in the BBC The...
5 million IVF births since 1978
Statistics gathered from around the world IVF advocates were pleased to hear the new statistic that over 5 million children have been born through IVF....
The eugenicist sympathies of IVF pioneer Robert Edwards
The 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards was one of the Nobel committee’s most popular decisions. Right up until he...
Grave concern about the safety of new IVF procedure
A paper published this week in the journal Science questioned the safety an IVF procedure designed to prevent mitochondrial diseases in children. A paper published...
One-third of women conceive naturally after IVF
Couple has naturally-conceived twins soon after their IVF twins. British couple Stuart and Julie Dalgetty were shocked to discover that Julie was having twins at...
An early progenitor of IVF?
“The strange tale of how 500 women were helped to conceive after the first world war”. The Spectator (UK) is describing it as “The strange...
Digging in the murky past of IVF
Hi there, Another research scandal from the 1950s has been uncovered, this time in Canada. As Xavier Symons reports below, Native American children in boarding...
Spread the love: a new principle for procreation in the age of IVF
Procreative beneficence must be supplemented with another concept, procreative altruism, argue two Oxford bioethicists Utilitarian notions of reproductive autonomy may not be as simple to...
Does the development of IVF have a murky past?
Was Patrick Steptoe, one of the famed creators of IVF, sensitive to research ethics? Robert Edwards (L) and Patrick Steptoe (R) announcing the birth of...
“Alka-Seltzer” IVF possible for fraction of current price
Belgian IVF researchers claim that they can deliver IVF for 10 to 15% of the current cost of conventional programs. Belgian IVF researchers claim that...