Nigeria: Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation Awards 40 Couples IVF Grants
[This Day] Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation (IIF), through its Project 40at40 in accordance with the wishes of the late founder, Mrs. Ibidunni Ighodalo, has awarded 40 couples In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) grants. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 12, 2020 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Special Collection: In vitro fertilisation – effectiveness of add-ons
Special Collection: In vitro fertilisation - effectiveness of add-ons Infertility affects as many as 1 in 7 couples. Many of these people turn to fertility treatments for help. In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is generally considered the most advanced treatment option, and is recommended in many cases, regardless of the cause of subfertility.Currently there are many adjunctive treatments offered in addition to standard IVF, in the hope that pregnancy outcomes will improve. These have been called IVF ‘add-ons’. The term has gained popularity and is applied to collectively group any extra (non-essential) procedures, techni...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - October 16, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
Nigeria: Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation Rolls Out CSR Initiative for Couples
[This Day] The Founding Pastor of Trinity House Church, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo has stated that the Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation (IFF) will require a maximum of N150 million to fulfill his late wife, Mrs. Ibidunni Ighodalo, last wish of helping 40 couples that could not have their own babies to have access to In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) medication. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - July 20, 2020 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Cameroon: Yaounde Reproductive Hospital - Motherhood Celebrated in Grandiose Christmas Feast
[Cameroon Tribune] The First Lady, Mrs Chantal Biya, spent her weekend with mothers and babies born via In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) exchanging Christmas gifts. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 24, 2019 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Cameroon: In-Vitro Fertilisation Success Rate Continues
[Cameroon Tribune] The hospital has delivered its 160th baby amidst the retrieval of some 50 Ooctytes from three women and 10 embryo transfer for future IVF babies. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - October 18, 2019 Category: OBGYN 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
France May Face Sperm Shortage Under Macron Plan to Ease IVF Rules France May Face Sperm Shortage Under Macron Plan to Ease IVF Rules
France risks a shortage of frozen sperm if lawmakers approve new legislation that allows single women and lesbian couples access to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and abolishes the right of sperm and egg donors to keep their identities secret, clinicians said.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s 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
RCN backs campaign to publicly honour IVF nurse pioneer
A campaign to secure public recognition for a pioneering nurse who helped to develop in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment has been backed by the Royal College of Nursing. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - June 26, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Ian Craft obituary
Gynaecologist and IVF pioneer whose methods often proved controversialThe early days of assisted reproduction were fraught with controversy, as media commentators and religious figures denigrated its practitioners for playing God or interfering with nature.Louise Brown, the world ’s first baby to be conceived through in vitro fertilisation (IVF), arrived in 1978. By 2018, eight million babies worldwide had been born using IVF or related techniques. The rapid acceptance of the concept was largely due to the pioneering work of gynaecologists such as Ian Craft, who, along withRobert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe (who treated ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 10, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Georgina Ferry Tags: Fertility problems IVF Reproduction Medical research Hospitals Devon Source Type: news
DF-PGT, now possible through massive sequencing techniques
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Researchers at the UAB, in collaboration with the Blood and Tissue Bank of Catalonia, have implemented an innovative and universal strategy, prepared for a simultaneous diagnosis of genetic mutations and chromosomal alterations within embryos obtained by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). It allows analysing up to 4,800 genes responsible for the most common hereditary diseases and speeds up the study process and the availability of the results of the family's single gene disorders. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
In vitro fertilisation: 40 years on – Science Weekly podcast
This week, the world ’s first IVF baby turned 40. The procedure has come a long way since 1978, and more than 6 million IVF babies have now been born. But should we be concerned about the rising numbers of fertility treatments? And are we becoming less fertile?Hannah Devlin investigatesSubscribe and review onAcast,Apple Podcasts,Soundcloud,Audioboom andMixcloud. Join the discussion onFacebook andTwitterThis week, the world ’s first IVF babyturns 40. Louise Brown was born on 25 July 1978, weighing five pounds, 12 ounces.IVF has come a long way since then, and 6 million babies have been born thanks to the procedure. But ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 27, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Hannah Devlinand produced by Graihagh Jackson Tags: Science IVF Fertility problems Source Type: news
Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research
The first ‘test-tube’ baby turns 40 this month, but the impact of in vitro fertilisation extends far beyond solutions to fertility problemsIt sounds rather perverse and archaic today to call a childborn by IVF a “test-tube baby”. The technique of assisted reproduction has become so widespread and normalised, more than 6 million babies down the road, that there ’s nothing so remarkable or stigmatising in having been conceived in a petri dish (“in vitro”means in glass, although test tubes were never involved). In many countries worldwide, 3-6% of allchildren are now conceived this way.Continue reading... (Sourc...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 8, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Philip Ball Tags: IVF Science Reproduction Health Fertility problems Society Pregnancy Stem cells Medical research Biology Reproductive rights Women Parents and parenting Family & wellbeing Ethics World news Source Type: news
Nigeria:National Hospital Celebrates '13 Years of Uninterrupted in Vitro Fertilisation'
[Premium Times] The National Hospital Abuja, on Wednesday celebrated 13 years of providing uninterrupted In Vitro Fertilisation Services (IVF) to Nigerians. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 21, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Rwanda:Rwanda Military Hospital Opens Fertility Clinic
[New Times] The Gynecology and Obstetric Department at Rwanda Military Hospital, Kanombe, will, starting next week, begin offering infertile couples with intra-uterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) services. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 4, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
