News: Obesity is not a threat to successful IVF
The results of a study in Scotland have indicated that obese and overweight women have the same chance of successful IVF treatment as normal weight women.
Sarah Guy 05 January 2009
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Announcement: Third Yazd International Student Award and Congress in Reproductive Medicine
Third Yazd International Student Award and Congress in Reproductive Medicine
April 17-19, 2009 Yazd, Iran
Abstract Deadline: Jan 30, 2009
Tabibnejad N, 04 January 2009
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News: 10th International Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine
Following nine successful Royan International Congresses, tenth congress will be held on September 23-25, 2009 in Tehran, Iran. During the past congresses we observed participation of thousands of specialists, scientists, researchers and students from all around the world in a friendly atmosphere to exchange the knowledge and experiences.
Kamal Alizadeh 23 December 2008
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News: Correction - 5th Congress on Stem Cell Biology & Technology
Following nine successful Royan International Congresses, tenth congress will be held on September 23-25, 2009 in Tehran, Iran. During the past congresses we observed participation of thousands of specialists, scientists, researchers and students from all around the world in a friendly atmosphere to exchange the knowledge and experiences. Their warm encouragements plus their brilliant comments and suggestions led us to increase in scientific level and better organization of the congress.
Kamal Alizadeh 23 December 2008
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News: 5th International Congress on Stem Cell Biology & Technology
Following nine successful Royan International Congresses, tenth congress will be held on September 23-25, 2009 in Tehran, Iran. During the past congresses we observed participation of thousands of specialists, scientists, researchers and students from all around the world in a friendly atmosphere to exchange the knowledge and experiences.
Kamal Alizadeh 22 December 2008
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News: 10th Royan International Research Award on Reproductive Biomedicine & Stem Cell Biotechnology
Royan International Research Award was founded by late director of Royan Institute; Dr. S. Kazemi with the aim of encouraging the researchers and appreciation of their efforts. This annual award is a prize given to five prominent Research Projects in the field of Reproductive Biomedicine, Stem Cell Biology and Technology and other related subjects.
Kamal Alizadeh 22 December 2008
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Announcement: Clinical Fellowship in Andrology and Reproductive Medicine
Clinical Fellowship in Andrology and Reproductive Medicine for medical postgraduates in gynaecolgy, general surgery, urology and general medicine
Objectives:
Train postgraduate students to establish and run an efficient, cost effective and ethical reproductive medicine unit.
Duration:
1 year
The students will not receive any stipend or any other form of financial support from the institution. Fellows enrolled will not be on call in the hospital in any other department.
Dr.N.Pandiyan 20 December 2008
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News: Girl or boy? It's in dad's genes
New research hints that whether a man has sons or daughters is influenced by his genes. The study, by Mr Correy Gellatly from Newcastle University, was published in the journal Evolutionary Biology last week.
Alison Cranage 16 December 2008
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News: Fertility drugs linked to increased cancer risk
Women who use fertility drugs may be at increased risk of developing cancer of the uterus. Dr Ronit Calderon-Margalit and colleagues at Hadassah-Hebrew University in Jerusalem studied 15,000 women who gave birth 30 years ago.
Rachael Panizzo 16 December 2008
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News: Research links intelligence to sperm quality
Researchers at London's Institute of Psychiatry have found that more intelligent men have better quality sperm, suggesting a correlation between intelligence and evolutionary fitness, in a study published in the journal Intelligence.
Katy Sinclair 16 December 2008
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Study Review: IVF Ethics Questionnaire [Results]
One year ago we presented an IVF ethics questionnaire. Within 6 weeks we had over 600 responses from people in the field of IVF, patients and members of the general public from all around the world. The results of this study are now online.
IVF.net 14 December 2008
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News: Study shows passive smoking causes fertility problems
Research published by scientists at the US University of Rochester Medical Centre in the Journal of Tobacco Control reveals that women exposed to second-hand smoke as children or young adults have an increased likelihood of experiencing miscarriages or trouble conceiving.
Katy Sinclair 12 December 2008
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News: Victorian upper house passes fertility bill
The Upper House of Victoria's Parliament has passed the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Bill by 20 votes to 18. The legislation will mean Victorian laws meet federal discrimination legislation by ensuring all women have equal access to fertility treatment.
Antony Blackburn-Starza 12 December 2008
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News: Fertility patients' indecision about fate of stored embryos
A study undertaken in the US has revealed that fertility patients with frozen embryos in storage are unhappy with the options available in relation to embryo disposal.
Sarah Guy 12 December 2008
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Article: Emotionally and Physically Preparing for IVF
Your Emotional Preparedness:
There are many complex emotions that you will be encountering as you are anticipating your IVF cycle. If you are using donor eggs, donor sperm, or a surrogate, the emotions that you have will be even more splintered, as you also must consider the weight of genetics in this equation.
Conceivable World 08 December 2008
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Article: In Vitro Fertilization
The introduction of in vitro fertilization completely changed, and greatly improved, the way doctors are able to treat the most difficult cases of infertility- even those that were previously considered untreatable. While it’s not a “cure all”, IVF has revolutionized the world of infertility and the medical field’s approach towards treating and understanding the disease.
Conceivable World 08 December 2008
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News: Assisted reproduction associated with elevated risk of birth defects
A study published last week in the journal Human Reproduction found an elevated risk of birth defects amongst babies conceived through assisted reproductive techniques, including IVF. The research, headed by Dr Jennita Reefhuis of the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, used data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study to compare the health of babies born to women who had used the techniques with infants born to women who had conceived naturally.
Lorna Stewart 24 November 2008
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News: Overweight women more likely to miscarry healthy babies
Overweight women are at greater risk of miscarrying a genetically normal baby in the early stages of pregnancy than women who maintain a healthy weight, according to a new study by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, US.
Rebecca Robey 17 November 2008
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News: Slow-frozen embryos seem to produce healthier babies in IVF [Correction]
Three new independent studies have provided further evidence that embryos stored using slow-freezing techniques may be better than fresh for IVF. The studies were presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference in San Francisco, US, last week. The studies indicate that using frozen embryos rather than fresh embryos reduces the risk of stillbirth and premature delivery.
Alison Cranage 17 November 2008
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News: Child born following whole ovary transplant
A 39-year old woman has become the first to give birth following a whole ovary transplant.
Adam Fletcher 17 November 2008
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News: Fertility experts suggest reforms to overcome sperm shortage
Sperm donation services require infrastructural reorganisation, 'sperm-sharing' incentive schemes and regulatory reforms to overcome the severe shortage presently causing 'anguish' to thousands of infertile couples in the UK each year and to the health professionals unable to provide treatment to their patients, according to fertility experts writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
MacKenna Roberts 17 November 2008
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News: Acupuncture does not increase chance of IVF conception: further evidence
Two new studies have found that acupuncture does not increase the chances of conception through IVF.
Katy Sinclair 17 November 2008
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News: 'No-drugs' IVF just as effective for under 35's
A new method of assisted conception has been hailed as a safer and equally effective alternative to IVF for certain groups of women undergoing treatment.
Sarah Guy 17 November 2008
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News: Screening embryos before IVF improves success rate
The first trial of a procedure which selects IVF embryos with the best chance of developing into healthy babies was presented last week at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference in San Francisco.
Lorna Stewart 17 November 2008
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News: Woman gives birth to twins conceived with 13 year-old sperm
A woman in Taiwan has used the frozen sperm of her cancer-survivor husband to conceive and give birth to healthy twins. The woman's husband, surnamed Chen, was diagnosed with testicular cancer whilst studying at university aged 23.
Sarah Guy 17 November 2008
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