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Woman backed for wanting to leave partner of 11 years over " infertility "
A 38-year-old woman has asked Mumsnet users for advice because she is thinking about leaving her partner of 11 years as he is unable to have children. In the post, user backoftheplane refers to her partner as her 'husband,' despite the fact that they are not married. She reveals that, last year,…#mumsnet #icsi #kevincampbell #universityofflorida #campbell #ivf (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Alcohol Intake Tied to Fertility Treatment Outcomes
TUESDAY, Oct. 25, 2022 -- Higher alcohol intake is associated with reduced odds of pregnancy or live birth after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) treatment, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - October 25, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Sperm Donation Improves Post-ICSI Birth Rates in Older Patients Sperm Donation Improves Post-ICSI Birth Rates in Older Patients
This study suggests that sperm donation increases live birth rates while reducing miscarriage occurrence in advanced maternal age patients.Human Reproduction (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health Journal Article Source Type: news

The Risk of Birth Defects With Conception by ART The Risk of Birth Defects With Conception by ART
This study indicates that the use of assisted reproductive technology is associated with an increased risk of birth defects, with the use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection further increasing risk.Human Reproduction (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - March 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health Journal Article Source Type: news

UCLA research could be step toward lab-grown eggs and sperm to treat infertility
A new study on how and when the precursors to eggs and sperm are formed during development could help pave the way for generating egg and sperm cells in the lab to treat infertility.The study, published in the journal Cell Reports, describes the way in which human stem cells evolve into germ cells, the precursors for egg and sperm cells.“Right now, if your body doesn’t make germ cells then there’s no option for having a child that’s biologically related to you,” said Amander Clark, the study’s lead author, a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. “W...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 6, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Frozen Embryo Transfer Tied to Cancer Risk in Kids
There wasn't an increased cancer risk among children born to parents who used other types of assisted reproductive technology such as fertility drugs, IVF or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - December 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

IVF clinics are 'embezzling' £42million from desperate patients by charging for extra treatments
Professor Chris Barratt, of of Dundee University, said around half of couples are being offered ICSI, an additional IVF technique designed to help men with poor sperm. But not all men need it. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Featured Review: Interventions for unexplained infertility
Couples are classified as having unexplained infertility when they have tried to conceive for at least one year and no abnormality in semen analysis, ovulation, or tubal patency has been identified. Treatment options for unexplained infertility include expectant management, ovarian stimulation (OS), intrauterine insemination (IUI), OS-IUI, and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) with or without intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Cochrane authors conductednetwork meta-analysis on interventions for unexplained infertility.Cochrane Gynecology and Fertility sat down with Dr Rui Wang, the lead author of the study, who answered t...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - September 27, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news

Meet the families who say we're glorious proof you don't need IVF
Laura underwent two NHS-funded attempts at IVF, using a technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), where a single sperm was injected into one of Laura's eggs. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 27, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Podcast: Assisted reproductive technology: an overview of Cochrane Reviews
Cochrane Overviews bring together the findings from multiple reviews and one of the largest, first published in September 2013, was updated and republished in May 2018. Cindy Farquhar, from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand describes this enormous volume of evidence for assisted reproduction." Infertility is defined as failure to conceive after one year of trying. Up to one in six couples will experience this at some point in their lives and many will seek fertility treatment in the form of assisted reproduction. When they do so, they will hope that they are getting t...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - August 7, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lydia Parsonson Source Type: news

European pregnancy rates from IVF and ICSI 'appear to have reached a peak'
(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) The latest annual data collected by ESHRE from European national registries (for 2016) show another rise in the cumulative use of IVF in the treatment of infertility, although success rates after IVF or ICSI appear to have reached a peak, with pregnancy rates per started treatment calculated at 27.1% after IVF and 24.3% after ICSI. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Large cohort study confirms small added obstetric risk from transfer of longer developed embryos
(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) The transfer of embryos cultured for five or six days (instead of two or three) after fertilisation in IVF and ICSI has become routine in many fertility clinics. Many (but not all) studies show that transferring these longer and better developed embryos - known as blastocysts - will increase the chance of pregnancy and live birth. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

IVF add-on procedure that costs an extra £1,000 is actually LESS effective for healthy couples
Researchers from the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne and Melbourne IVF analysed the results of more than 3,300 IVF cycles and found just 13.6 per cent of ICSI procedures led to births. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Older fathers a risk to health of partners and unborn children
Men should be counselled on risks linked to paternal age Related items fromOnMedica Fewer than ever women smoke at point of birth Obese couples take longer to achieve pregnancy Patients face postcode lottery for IVF, new data shows Doctors and midwives welcome clear alcohol advice Doubled use of ICSI did not improve outcomes in US (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - May 12, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news