More older UK women seek IVF
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There has been a huge rise in demand for fertility treatment among women in their forties, figures show.
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The biological clock matters even if a would-be mother uses special reproductive technology. The rate of successful pregnancies using laboratory fertility techniques drops from 37 percent to about 4 percent as women get older, a new study shows.
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Italian researchers have achieved 13 human births using previously frozen eggs. It's encouraging for women who want to preserve their fertility, but efficiency is still low. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Older women and migrant families boost births.
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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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IVF babies may be up to nine times more likely to develop a rare disorder that can cause cancer, a study suggests.
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Couples from poorer backgrounds seeking fertility treatment are more inclined to want anonymous donors than more well off people, a study says.
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Some doctors doubt the reliability of menopause tests and question why women would need to use them.
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The UK's fertility regulator is set to rule that stem cell medics can recruit women to donate eggs for research.
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Women who exercise routinely  for four or more hours per week may reduce their chances of  having a successful pregnancy with in vitro fertilization  (IVF), new research suggests.
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A growing number of couples are screening embryos to detect a predisposition to cancers that may or may not develop later in life.
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Experts are calling for fertility treatment rules to be harmonised across the EU to deter couples travelling for care.
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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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When Joy Lagos learned she had cancer, she had enough hope to believe she would beat it. What brought the San Francisco resident to tears, however, was knowing that radiation and chemotherapy would lead to early menopause and rob her of the chance to have children. Last week, that changed. A renowned infertility expert in suburban St. Louis transplanted a whole ovary from Lagos' sister into Lagos, a step that could enable her to have children.
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Thousands of British women left infertile after cancer treatment have been given new hope by the world&#39;s first birth of a baby following an ovarian transplant.
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NEW YORK  - Fewer than one third of women 40 to 60 years old have heard about the landmark study that found the risks of hormone therapy for most menopausal women probably outweigh their benefits.
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Infertility treatment has come a long way since the first test-tube baby was born 26 years ago. When Louise Brown was born more than a quarter of a century ago the procedure was hailed as pioneering.