Only a quarter of women return to their frozen eggs,leading experts to determine the best time to undergo the expensive procedure.
Technology has allowed millions of babies to be born,but as it advances it raises tough questions about what pregnancy and birth will be.
The report revealed alarming variations in the success rates of individual clinics,ranging from over 35 per cent for the top-performing clinics to roughly 7 per cent.
Male infertility is a factor in one in three IVF cycles,yet too many Australian men don’t realise how crucial it is to protect their own fertility until it’s too late.
“The night of my partner Chumpy’s death,my brother sat next to me and started talking. I only heard two words:‘sperm retrieval’.”
When people think of IVF,they think of what women endure. But for men struggling to become a parent our culture presents a wide range of emotional challenges.
Victorian sperm donations plummeted during the pandemic. Now,women are struggling to find donors,in particular,from Caucasian men.
Most people undergoing fertility treatment aren’t comfortable talking about it at work,fearing it would harm their career,but the stigma is shifting.
Unclaimed eggs in fertility clinic freezers should be donated by default to help women with mitochondrial disease amid a donor egg shortage,bioethicists say.
Monash’s CEO said the company would be happy to talk to firms about a takeover but said the stability of ownership had been a plus for recruitment.
Even fertility experts consider the fact minute pieces of thawed ovarian tissue can make eggs in the bodies of women who have had cancer treatment to be remarkable - and Australian research is at the forefront.