Genetic screening fails women trying for IVF birth
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Genetic screening, often seen as the best hope for older women undergoing IVF treatment to have a child, is ineffective and actually reduces rates of pregnancies, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Â· Thousands of women urged to contact doctors Â· 44 kits could have given bogus negative results
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Very obese women should be denied access to fertility treatment, UK experts recommend.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Two standard prenatal diagnostic tests  -- amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS) -- both carry a low risk of miscarriage, a U.S. study finds.
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Very obese women should be denied access to fertility treatment, experts are recommending.
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Australian doctors use genetic screening to ensure that a test tube baby's blood is compatible with its mother's.
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Don't count on freezing eggs to offset a ticking biological clock just yet. So say new guidelines for fertility specialists that conclude the procedure remains highly experimental even though it is increasingly offered.
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NEW YORK  - Deep-freezing embryos has been routine for some time, to give infertile couples reproduction choices in various situations, but freezing unfertilized eggs has proven difficult.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Babies conceived through fertility treatments have higher rates of birth defects, but the overall risk is so small that it should not keep couples from having children this way, doctors are reporting.
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Italys new restrictive law on assisted reproduction, introduced in March this year which made it illegal for doctors to carry out pre-natal genetic diagnosis of embryos has created a diaspora of couples seeking ...
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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, and are often treatable if they do.
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Â· New hope for women who cannot have standard IVF Â· Eggs matured outside the body before being stored
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Acupuncture therapy appears to reduce the chances of successful IVF, US research suggests.
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An attempt to stop scientific research into human-animal "hybrid" embryos fails in the House of Lords.
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A federal judge on Thursday ruled against the government&#39;s ban on so-called partial birth abortions, saying the measure was unconstitutional because it failed to provide an exception to protect a mother&#39;s health.
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Fertility clinics are failing to provide enough information to potential patients, a regulator says.
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A national women&#39;s screening programme for cervical cancer is failing to reach women, particularly Maori women, an audit has revealed.