Compassionate embryo transfer is a rarely spoken about option for patients considering what to do with unused embryos.

This IVF option for unused embryos is rare. For Katherine,it made perfect sense

For many people who have been through IVF,the option to donate or destroy unused embryos doesn’t feel right. But there is another option.

  • Sassica Francis-Bruce

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Hilary Smith,underwent IVF to conceive her now five-year-old daughter.

Little to no evidence costly IVF ‘add-ons’ increase chances of live birth,new study finds

While the majority of women undergoing IVF pay for “optional extras”,promoted as increasing fertility outcomes,new Australian research suggests most don’t work.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind found that fertility provider Monash IVF and telehealth company Medmate each interfered with the privacy of website visitors by using third-party tracking pixels without consent,then used what they gathered to chase those people with advertising.

Health firms tracked patients’ searches without consent,watchdog finds

People researching egg freezing and prostate conditions on health websites had their searches fed to social media giants,which then chased them with ads. The privacy commissioner has called the health sites’ conduct unlawful.

  • David Swan

‘I felt completely alone’:Why no one is talking about this rare cancer

Nicola was the only woman in Brisbane with this particular gynaecological cancer at the time.

  • Elli Jacobs
IVF clinics will face greater scrutiny under beefed-up Victorian laws aimed at better protecting fertility patients.

IVF clinics face stricter standards,threat of bans following embryo bungles

Beefed up Victorian laws will increase scrutiny on fertility providers and give greater powers to immediately cancel an IVF clinic’s registration.

  • Grant McArthur
There’s a great life to be had out the other side of the baby-making vortex,says author Katrina Strickland,pictured here with Teo.

I didn’t choose to be ‘childless’,but life on the other side is actually pretty great

For some of the unintentionally childless there were medical issues. For others,it was the result of not one big decision but dozens of little ones.

  • Katrina Strickland
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Soul Patts and its private equity partner have returned with an improved offer for Monash IVF.

Embryo donors sue Monash IVF for unresolved grief after wrong baby bungle

Details of the shocking Brisbane embryo mix-up that saw a woman have a stranger’s baby have emerged in a Supreme Court writ filed against Monash IVF by embryo donors.

  • Grant McArthur
Belinda and Emmanuel with two of their four newborns.

WA’s first set of quadruplets in six years delivered in Perth hospital

Belinda and Emmanuel Lotsu were thrilled with the four new additions to their family on Tuesday.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Monash IVF has reached confidential settlements with families impacted by embryo mix-ups at its Brisbane and Clayton clinics.

Monash IVF faces wrong embryo negligence claim

The claim comes weeks after Monash IVF reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with families involved in embryo mix-ups in Brisbane and Melbourne.

  • Grant McArthur
Tanya Hennessy:“I’ve done everything I ever wanted to do. I never live with regret.”

‘I’d rather be homeless than not meet my baby’:Inside Tanya’s long road to motherhood

The comedian,podcaster,TV presenter and author on her surprise first career,her yearning to become a mum – and chance meetings with politicians.

  • Benjamin Law