Browsing: IVF

After a 20-year career in higher education, including roles as a chief academic officer and faculty member, I left to have a child. I was one…

Illustration: Mel Haasch/The GuardianFor Erica L and her husband, in-vitro fertilization was the “nuclear option”.After two years of trying to conceive, Erica and her husband had…

The world’s “oldest baby” has been born in the US from an embryo that was frozen in 1994, it has been reported.Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born…

Eight babies have been born free of a disease that can lead to terrible suffering and early death, thanks to pioneering scientists in the UK employing a…

Eight Healthy Children Born Using Three-Person IVF TechniqueLong-awaited results of a three-person IVF technique suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by…

Doctors in the UK have announced the birth of eight healthy babies after performing a groundbreaking procedure that creates IVF embryos with DNA from three people…

Lord Robert Winston, a professor and TV doctor who was a pioneer of IVF treatment, has resigned from the British Medical Association (BMA) over planned strikes…

People undergoing fertility treatment should have the legal right to take time off for their appointments, according to research that finds over a third have considered…

Cassie Van Swol and her husband, Steven, spent $40,000 and took out a second mortgage chasing the promise of parenthood.“The whole time they kept telling me,…

The proportion of women giving birth after fertility treatment in the UK has increased by more than a third in a decade, with the equivalent of…