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(wz) The issueless couples have a ray of hope in Mangalore. Thanks to the ‘Assisted Human Reproduction’ concept - The Centre for Reproductive Medicine  ‘Santhathi’ here has successfully achieved 1055 pregnencies resulting from various treatment given to the issueless couples.
Started in 2000 the centre offers test tube baby methods such as In-Vitro Fertilisation, ICSI, Egg sharing and embryo sharing. Santhathi maintains an ongoing collaborative research with National and International Organization, for the deeper understanding of the defects in Human Reproduction. more…

From: »Mangalorean.com«

(sz) For many infertile couples in the UAE, the stork has missed their home a little too often. But in Dubai, they have found a stork of their own, located within a nondescript white building within the Rashid Hospital compound.
It is the Dubai Gynaecology and Fertility Centre (DGFC), a place that hundreds of couples flock to each year in the hope of one day holding their very own bundle of joy.
Set up in partnership between the Dubai Department of Health and Medical Services (Dohms) and a leading UK-based fertility expert, Professor Ian Craft, in 1991, the centre has been responsible for more than 2,300 babies born to couples in the UAE and surrounding countries.
Dr Husnia Gargash, consultant gynaecologist and director of the centre, tells Gulf News that fertility is an important issue to everybody.
“But here, it’s a big issue if women cannot get pregnant. They are constantly pressured by in-laws and sometimes it is taken to the extreme, ending up with divorce or the husband taking another wife,” she says. more…
From: »Gulfnews.com«

(sz) At 7, Nora and Emma don’t understand all the science it took to create them. What they do understand is that there are two very important women in their lives:
One is Mom: Carrie Carpenter, the white-haired, gentle woman who gave birth to the beautiful, blue-eyed fraternal twins when she was 47.
The other is the woman they call their Egg Mom: Lorraine Wilde, the tall, brainy college teacher who was once a strapped grad student convinced her smart, healthy genes had hit a dead end.
The two women never met at the fertility clinic where Carrie received Lorraine’s eggs. There, in an industry that depends on donated egg and sperm, the watchword is “anonymous.”
Through small, meaningful gifts and notes passed through the clinic, they corresponded. Anonymously. Finally, through a card with a phone number, blacked out carefully by the clinic but faintly discernible when held to the light just so, Carrie and Lorraine met. more…

From: »The Seattle Times«

(wz) Das Liebesleben wird nach dem Kalender ausgerichtet, es wird Temperatur gemessen oder die Ernährung umgestellt. Um das ersehnte Wunschbaby zu zeugen, wird so manches versucht. Doch wenn sich der Nachwuchs nicht auf natürliche Weise einstellen will, sehen manche Paare ihre letzte Hoffnung in der künstlichen Befruchtung.
Mit der für Anfang Juli geplanten Eröffnung einer ambulanten Praxis für Reproduktionsmedizin im Herzen von Magdeburg bekommt nun auch Sachsen-Anhalt ein niedergelassenes Kinderwunschzentrum. Damit schließe sich eine Versorgungslücke, sagte die Oberärztin für Reproduktionsmedizin und Gynäkologische Endokrinologie an der Universitätsklinik in Magdeburg, Ingrid Nickel.
Bislang habe es nur an den beiden Unikliniken in der Landeshauptstadt und in Halle Hilfe für ungewollt kinderlose Paare gegeben. Obwohl es in allen anderen Bundesländern «schon seit Jahren üblich» sei, die künstliche Befruchtung in privaten niedergelassenen Zentren vornehmen zu lassen. more…

From: »Mitteldeutsche Zeitung« (online edition / mz-web)

(wz) Varolab, the leading German company for high-quality IVF-equipment will be joining »MEFS2007«.
The congress and fair of the »Middle East Fertility Society« will held at the Susesi Hotel in Antalya (Turkey) from October, 31st to November, 3rd., 2007.
The »MEFS General Program Committee« invites interested parties to participate in the scientific programme through the submission of abstracts, which it will consider for presentation. Abstracts must be submitted through the electronic online Abstract Submitter (at the website) or via email.
Varolab products feature a high level of technical convenience, uncomplicated user guidance, ideal compatibility and first-class workmanship. Varolab is well known for reliability and safety in installation and commissioning. Beyond this, the name Varolab stands for fast delivery and excellent professional support.
Varolab offers their worldwide customers a wide range of modular-design system solutions for in vitro fertilization (IVF). Thus their claim is »system solutions for reproductive medicine«.

Direct link to »MEFS2007«

(sz) Responding with alarm to the U.S. Supreme Court decision permitting the banning of late-term abortions reproductive rights activists have insisted that any restrictions on a woman’s right to choose must be fought.
For instance South Carolina is considered legislation that would require pregnant women to undergo an ultrasound and view images of their embryo before being permitted to have an abortion. South Carolina already has the toughest climate for abortion rights in the United States, causing the number of clinics in that state to drop from 14 to 3 in ten years, with a 50% drop in abortions. Forcing women seeking abortions to view an ultrasound would presumably deter even more women from seeking them from the dwindling number of providers.
One would think that the obvious pro-choice position would be that a woman has a right to know the contents of her womb with any test she chooses, including ultrasound, but should not be forced to have one, just as she should have the right to continue or terminate her pregnancy with or without that information. But this is far from obvious to a bioconservative minority within reproductive rights activism.
Responding to the slowly shifting sex ratios in India and China where male-biased sex selective abortion is widely practiced a global bioconservative alliance has emerged to demand harsh punishment for providers of ultrasound and abortion in those countries. Some activists would like to see sex selective abortion banned worldwide. These demands are popular across the political spectrum, since religious conservatives welcome any restriction on reproductive freedom, and progressives have contempt for the patriarchal attitudes that lead to male preference. The language of millions of “missing girls” and widespread “foeticide” has equated sex selective abortion with the murder of girls and ethnic genocide. The argument is also advanced that the changing sex ratio in those countries will have bad consequences for women and social stability. more…

From: »IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies)«

(sz) [BioNews, London] Advances in egg freezing have leapt from the lab to the public, particularly in the US where clinics are unregulated, to offer assisted reproduction using frozen eggs despite the long-term effects being little known, according to the journal Science. A news article evaluated the reliability and significance of fertility clinics offering egg freezing services, scientifically known as oocyte cryo-preservation.
The US company Extend Fertility, based in Massachusetts, targets its egg freezing services towards young women who wish to stall their biological clock. Its advertisement campaign is controversial both in regards to the unknown risks and effectiveness of egg freezing, and concerns over its sociological impact. Extend aims to provide a lifestyle choice rather than a medical need.
But supporters argue that egg freezing has a number of advantages over embryo storage. They believe it more fairly evens the gender gap, since men can healthily reproduce throughout most of their lives, whereas women have a narrower window of fertility and their most healthy fertile years are their twenties, when many are focussing on their education and career. more…
From: »IVF.net«

(sz) COUPLES are being forced to wait up to three years for fertility treatment in the Lothians. New figures show the wait for IVF treatment has continued to lengthen since 2005, when an average wait of 24 months was branded “unacceptable” by health chiefs.
At that time, a change in guidelines, which meant many more couples were eligible for treatment, combined with a national shortage of sperm and egg donations, was blamed for the delays.
A recent funding boost means more people than ever are being given IVF treatment at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary - but the number of couples on the waiting list has also increased, to 460.
Campaigners have demanded measures to end the “postcode lottery” that means Lothians patients are waiting so long. Waiting times in Glasgow were seven months in 2005.
Sheena Young, head of business development for Infertility Network UK, said: “One in six couples seek specialist treatment for fertility problems and the impact of infertility can be devastating.
“However, excellent results can be achieved in treating infertility if patients are rapidly investigated and referred for the appropriate treatment. Patients must be given the chance to access this treatment without having to wait, in some cases up to three years.” more…

From: »The Scotsman«

(wz) Years of infertililty treatment took their toll on Caroline Gallup’s health and marriage. But the hardest part was knowing when to give up.
I feel ashamed. I love spending time with our friends’ adorable children, but today I can’t cope with their visit. I’ve felt the panic rising since yesterday, but have been trying to ignore it. I’ve been running and re-running scenarios in my head: I could start cooking when they arrive, so that I’m in the kitchen for the most part, and then occupied with eating and clearing away. Even better, I could send parents, children and my husband, Bruce, out walking with our dogs, so that I have space to deal with how I’m feeling.
Since making the decision to stop our fertility treatment and accept the unsuccessful outcome, being with kids is generally OK, but without warning my distress at not being able to have Bruce’s child jumps up and bites me on the behind. I’m having a wobble, and I don’t know what to do. more…

From: »The Independent« (UK)

(sz) In vitro fertilization is considered one of the greatest inventions of our time, but it also attracts extreme and emotional viewpoints.
Those viewpoints will be addressed later this month at Malaspina University-College (British Colombia – ed.) during a three-day international conference on new reproductive and genetic technologies called Nobody’s Child, Everybody’s Children.
Scientists, professors, health-care workers and students will gather to express opinions on the controversial subject and the direction it is heading.
Since the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilization, there have been an estimated three million people born from a variety of new reproductive and genetic technologies. more…

Direct link to congress: [Klick]

From: »Nanaimo News Bulletin «