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Fertility clinic used donor sperm with genetic flaw - Daily Mail 2nd November 2009
"One of Britain's top fertility clinics was at the centre of a health scare last night after it used unscreened and unsafe donor sperm to create test tube babies.
The sperm, which was used to conceive dozens of embryos at the Harley Street London Women's Clinic, was found to carry a genetic abnormality. "
Sperm donor passes on sudden death heart defect to nine children - Daily Mail 31st October 2009
"Doctors have called for sperm donors to be screened more fully after a man passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his donor children.
One of the children died just aged two from heart failure and two others, both now teenagers, are at risk from sudden cardiac death."
Women denied NHS fertility treatment because 'they cannot carry child themselves' - Daily Telegraph 30th October 2009
"Hundreds of women face a postcode lottery getting NHS funding for IVF treatment because they were born without a womb and require surrogates, the Telegraph can reveal. "
Daddies be damned! Who are the British women who think fathers are irrelevant? - Daily Mail 31st October 2009
"Having reached the age of 38 without meeting Mr Right, Karen Shefras decided to become a mother by using donated sperm.
As a result, Karen, who runs her own company, has never met her ten-month-old daughter's father. The closest she came to him was at the clinic where five of her eggs were injected with sperm donated by the dark-haired and intelligent businessman. "
Donor sperm safety 'in question' - BBC Health News 30th October 2009
"Experts are questioning how rigorously sperm donors must be screened after nine children have inherited a heart condition from their biological father.
The 23-year-old man was unaware of his heritable condition, a cardiomyopathy, that has killed one of the children. "
The Big Question: Are scientists now really able to make sperm and egg cells in the lab? - The Independent 30th October 2009
"Why are we asking this now?
Scientists in the United States led by Renee Reijo Pera of Stanford University School of Medicine have made primitive sperm and egg cells from stem cells taken from spare human embryos left over after IVF treatment. The emphasis is on "primitive" because they are not the fully-formed, mature sperm or eggs that are normally involved in conception. In scientific terms these cells are "germ cells", the immature cells that can, ultimately, give rise to sperm and eggs if they are allowed to develop further. "
Trying for a baby? Let gravity do the work - The Independent 30th October 2009
"The old wives' tale turns out to be true: lying with your feet up after sex improves your chances of having a baby (if you're a woman, that is).
True, at least, for a specialised kind of sex – that involving artificial insemination, where the sperm is directly inserted into the womb using the medical equivalent of a turkey baster."
Lying down after insemination boosts pregnancy chance: research - Daily Telegraph 30th October 2009
"Lying down for ten minutes after artificial insemination may increase the chances of a successful pregnancy by 50 per cent, research has shown. "
Sperm donor passes on fatal heart condition to children - Daily Telegraph 29th October 2009
"Sperm donors should go through more rigorous screening, doctors warned, after it emerged a man unknowingly passed on a potentially fatal heart condition to nine children, one of whom died. "
Women going through IVF told to lie back and put their feet up to boost conception by 50% - Daily Mail 30th October 2009
"Women who lie on their backs for 15 minutes after fertility treatment are 50 per cent more likely to get pregnant, according to a study.
Researchers suspect moving around after being artificially inseminated may prevent conception. "
'Scrambled generation' fear over new IVF rules: Women will be allowed to use mother's embryos - Daily Mail 30th October 2009
"Ministers are facing a storm of protest over new IVF rules that will permit a 'scrambling of generations' - with daughters allowed to have their own mother's children.
Parents of children who are rendered infertile through illness or medical treatment are to be allowed to store eggs, sperm or embryos for them to use to have children when they reach adulthood. "
'Lie still' for pregnancy boost - BBC Health News 29th October 2009
"Women undergoing fertility treatment with artificial insemination may boost their chances of pregnancy if they lie still afterwards, a study shows.
Researchers found 27% of women who laid down for 15 minutes after the procedure went on to have a baby compared with 17% who got up and moved around. "
Relaxation therapies 'can boost IVF success - Daily Telegraph 21st October 2009
"Relaxation exercises and group therapy can up to double the chance that women undergoing fertility treatment will get pregnant, a small study suggests. "
Alcohol hinders having a baby through IVF, couples warned - The Guardian 21st October 2009
"Couples who share a bottle of wine a week reduce their chances of having a baby through IVF by more than a quarter, according to a study by American fertility specialists.
Research into alcohol consumption among couples being treated at a fertility clinic found fewer successful pregnancies when the women drank several glasses of wine a week, or the man had a daily beer."
Action call on IVF waiting times - BBC Health News 19th October 2009
"Labour has called on the Scottish government to end what it claimed was a "postcode lottery" on IVF treatment.\n\nJackie Baillie MSP contacted every Scottish NHS board after a constituent approached her about the length of IVF waiting times in her area. "
Heartbeat's Jason and his wife feared they'd never have another child. Now they've got twins (and 16 spare embryos to give away) - Daily Mail 19th October 2009
"When Heartbeat star Jason Durr told his then four-year-old daughter she was going to have a twin brother and sister, there was one question he wasn't expecting. 'She said: "I'd like that, but could you make them older than me?"' he recalls.
'I guess she loved the idea of being the little girl in the house. We said: "No, I'm afraid you'll have to be the big sister." She thought for a few seconds before concluding that would be fine.' "
Egg screening 'ups IVF success' - BBC Health News 19th October 2009
"A screening technique can double the chance of IVF success, giving hope to tens of thousands of women struggling to have children, say experts.
Doctors at an annual US fertility meeting heard for the second year running of the merits of a test that screens embryos for genetic faults. "
Screening test ‘doubles the chance of pregnancy for women on IVF’ - The Times 19th October 2009
"A genetic-screening test could more than double the chances of pregnancy for women who undergo fertility treatment, a study suggests.
The first trial of its kind has found that two out of three women having in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) became pregnant if their embryos were checked for abnormalities before being implanted in the womb, compared with less than a third where the test was not used."
Test screens all 24 types of human chromosome - but it's only a start - The Sunday Times 18th October 2009
"It is heartbreaking for infertile couples and frustrating for doctors when IVF treatment fails or ends in miscarriage, not least because the reason for many such failures is well understood.
In between half and three quarters of cases, the cause is an embryo with abnormal chromosomes, flaws that cannot be spotted under the microscope. Instead, we need to take cells from developing embryos and analyse their chromosomes — the structures that hold our genes. "
New IVF hope for women struggling to have children - Daily Telegraph 19th October 2009
"Tens of thousands of women who are struggling to have children will be given hope by a new technique which can double the chance of IVF success."
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