Stockholm, Sweden: Taller women are more likely to have dizygotic (non-identical) twin pregnancies after double embryo transfer (DET), researchers from The Netherlands have found. Dr. Marieke Lambers, from VUMC, Gynaecology Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, Amsterdam, told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology on Monday that the findings could help […]
Category: Fertility
Women with recurrent miscarriage have a good chance of having a pregnancy and live birth
Stockholm, Sweden: Women who suffer from unexplained recurrent miscarriage (RM) need to know how long it might take them to achieve a live birth if they are not to lose hope and give up trying for a baby. There is currently no evidence-based treatment for RM, and therefore accurate counselling on the chances of achieving […]
Large new study helps disentangle the relationship between maternal characteristics, IVF treatment methods and singleton IVF children
Stockholm, Sweden: Further evidence of how maternal characteristics can influence the development of children born after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) was presented to the annual conference of the European Society of Human Fertilisation and Embryology on Monday. A study of all 8941 IVF children born in Sweden between 2002 and 2006 where only one baby […]
How many embryos to transfer? Swedish researchers develop new method to avoid twins while maintaining high live birth rates
Stockholm, Sweden: Swedish researchers have, for the first time, developed a reliable way of deciding whether one or two embryos should be transferred during fertility treatment; the method simultaneously maintains a high chance of women giving birth to a live baby, while reducing the risk of twins. Dr Jan Holte told the annual meeting of […]
Smoking during pregnancy lowers levels of ‘good’ HDL cholesterol in children: findings suggest adverse impact on health in later life
Researchers in Australia have discovered that mothers who smoke during pregnancy are causing developmental changes to their unborn babies that lead to them having lower levels of the type of cholesterol that is known to protect against heart disease in later life – high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. The research, published online today in the European […]
First study to investigate how many eggs are needed to achieve a live birth after IVF finds 15 is the perfect number
An analysis of over 400,000 IVF cycles in the UK has shown that doctors should aim to retrieve around 15 eggs from a woman’s ovaries in a single cycle in order to have the best chance of achieving a live birth after assisted reproduction technology. The study, which is published online in Europe’s leading reproductive […]
Mothers’ obesity increases the risk of foetal and infant death. Obese women have a higher risk of bleeding and infections after hysterectomy
Women who are obese during early pregnancy have a significantly increased risk of their baby dying before, during or up to one year after birth, according to research published in Europe’s leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction today [1]. A second paper [2] also published in the journal today shows that obesity increases the risk […]
Use of mild painkillers in pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of male reproductive problems
New evidence has emerged that the use of mild painkillers such as paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen, may be part of the reason for the increase in male reproductive disorders in recent decades. Research published in Europe’s leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction today (Monday 8 November) shows that women who took a combination of more […]
Parental infertility and cerebral palsy in children born spontaneously or after IVF/ICSI
Doctors have known for some time that children born after fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are at increased risk of cerebral palsy. However, it was not known whether this risk was due to the treatment itself, the higher frequency of preterm or multiple births, or a mechanism […]
Reaction to Bob Edwards winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine
In reaction to the news that Robert Edwards has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work pioneering in vitro fertilisation, Prof Martin Johnson, Professor of Reproductive Sciences at the University of Cambridge, said: “As one of Bob’s first research students, I’m naturally delighted that Bob Edwards has been awarded the Nobel […]