The World Health Organisation (WHO) is considering making changes to the definition of infertility to recognise that every individual has the 'right to reproduce'. Currently the WHO defines infertility as a disability and 'a disease of the reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular

There is a new breed of Solo Mum – mothers choosing to birth and bring up baby alone – finally putting the tired old Single Mother stereotype to bed. According to new figures from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) this week, there has been a 22 per cent hike in the number of

There is a much disputed claim that "injury" to the lining of the uterus - whether inadvertent or deliberate - increases the chance of embryo implantation and thus the chance of pregnancy in certain groups of women having IVF. The "injury" has usually been performed as a biopsy from the womb lining (endometrium), whose action

About a quarter of Australian women now in their reproductive years will not become mothers. How are childless women treated in 2016? And how do they treat themselves? In 1976, when I was 10, I was sold my first fertility fairy tale. The bearded prince wore lime-green trousers and a red-and-orange striped sweater. The princess

Medical tourism in Greece has vast potential that remains largely untapped. Despite efforts by the ministries of Tourism and Health to create a legal framework for the expansion of this significant special form of tourism, which would also benefit other areas of the sector, little in the way of results has been seen, resulting in

The number of single women and lesbian couples receiving fertility treatment has soared since the Government took the controversial decision to remove the legal requirement for any child conceived to have a father or father figure. In 2007, before the change in the law, only 350 single women had IVF. But by 2010, the last

Nearly one-fifth of women aged 35 to 44 years have had problems conceiving, according to a survey of over 15,000 British people. The results of the survey, which were published in Human Reproduction, also revealed that, of those who reported experiencing infertility, 42.7 percent of women and 46.8 percent of men did not seek medical

Sperm in the first fraction of ejaculate are more numerous, move more and present better quality DNA than those lagging behind. This is the conclusion of a study led by the Ginemed fertility clinic, which confirms that while the objective of the first fraction is to fertilise the egg, the second phase is so that

IVF success rates for women aged 43 and above could improve by retrieving eggs from their ovaries at an earlier stage of fertility treatment, according to a new study published today in the Journal of Endocrinology. US-based researchers found that the function of cells which nurse and support the development of eggs declines rapidly after

The number of children born to single women is increasing, partly as a result of social and legislative changes (in most jurisdictions) in the rights to parenthood. While technology has been readily able to meet this rising demand through donor insemination and even IVF, little is known about how children think, feel and fare growing