An investigation by BBC Radio’s Five Live has revealed an 85% leap in mistakes made by IVF treatment centres in England and Wales last year. This has led to calls for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to properly enforce

. The ad has since been removed.Experts at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and London Fertility Centre emphasized that prospective parents should only use licensed clinics.“When people use IVF as a way of making money, they are often

The number of couples approved for IVF treatment at the Oxford Fertility Unit has trebled compared to the same period last year, after NHS Oxfordshire agreed to consider couples below the 35-39 age bracket.Until December last year, NHS Oxfordshire

Scientists have found a link between the levels of air pollution and success rates of fertility treatment in the biggest ecological research of its kind.The scientists hope the knowledge of ecological effects on reproductive health will help doctors

A baby born to the wrong mum after an IVF mishap was returned to his biological parents this week. The fertility clinic mistakenly implanted the wrong embryo into patient, Carolyn Savage.Given the choice of terminating the pregnancy or handing over

Scientists believe that IVF will replace sex as the standard way to have a baby in the next 10 years. As couples wait longer to try for a baby, they are less likely to conceive naturally and sex will be a leisure pursuit rather than for reproduction

high sperm count or active sperm mean good fertility.In natural conception, the female egg selects the high quality sperm and blocks others from attaching. In IVF there is often limited sperm available and clinicians have been unable to tell if they

is the creation of Rosemary Reed who underwent several IVF cycles herself."The fertility industry is a multi-million dollar business and people need to realise that 75 percent of the time the treatments don't work. We want to offer people another fertility

the site’s fertility forum (even if they don’t themselves pass the attractiveness test!) and men can register to donate their beautiful sperm.Would you consider choosing a donor to increase your chances of having attractive children or is this site missing

Women’s bodies may be more intuitive than previously thought when it comes to allowing conception of a baby. Research in Australia has found that women have an in-built “quality control system” that assesses whether the male partner is up to scratch. “We actually think that some ...