Twins usher in new fertility treatment
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Science & environment: Â· IVM uses fewer drugs and is cheaper than IVF Â· Five pregnancies achieved with 'safer' technique
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A tiny French village in Brittany -- the self proclaimed capital of twin-dom -- has played host to an international gathering of thousands of identical twins, triplets and quadruplets.
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A fertility technique that repairs a woman&#39;s faulty eggs using DNA transferred from elsewhere in her body has led to the births of 20 children, scientists have revealed.
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Doctors have removed eggs from young female cancer patients and &#151; for the first time &#151; brought the eggs to maturity before freezing them, giving the girls a better chance to one day have children.
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With fertility drugs, Angela Magdaleno had triplets three years ago. Last week, she had quadruplets &amp;#151; without fertility drugs.
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They weren&#39;t due to arrive until next January, but nature has a way of doing things on its own terms. Yesterday, &quot;Pretty Woman&quot; Julia Roberts gave birth to twins, a girl and a boy.
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Older women and migrant families boost births.
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British scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years.
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Doctors meeting in Philadelphia today are reporting advances that may give women with cancer safer ways to preserve their fertility without hampering their treatment.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - "It's a dream," proclaimed the beaming 32-year-old new mother Friday as she cuddled her day-old baby girl, born following a pioneering ovarian tissue transplant performed after the woman was made infertile by chemotherapy.    Doctors hailed the breakthrough procedure, saying it sent a "big message of hope" to cancer patients who have lost their fertility and could one day allow women to delay motherhood beyond menopause...
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Scientists believe they have discovered how a condition that can threaten pregnancy could occur.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - A woman who gave birth after a pioneering ovarian tissue transplant snuggled her day-old baby girl Friday and called her "a big miracle."   Ouarda Touirat, who was infertile after she underwent chemotherapy due to Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1997, gave birth Thursday night following the ground-breaking procedure that doctors say could one day allow women to delay motherhood beyond menopause.   "I am very happy, it's what I always wanted," said Touirat, who presented her healthy 8-pound, 3-ounce baby, Tamara, at a news conference at Brussels' Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc hospital...
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A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients.
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Adriana Iliescu, an author and retired university teacher, has announced that she is pregnant with twins after ten years of fertility treatment.
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Doctors are reporting two advances that may give women with cancer safer ways to preserve their ability to have children without compromising their chances of beating the disease.
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Scientists in Britain claimed a first Tuesday, saying they have created a human embryo using DNA from one man and two women, which they say could help provide treatment for genetic diseases.
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Scientists are working on a contraceptive treatment which would stop men producing sperm.