New Delhi: Celebrities like Aamir Khan and Nicole Kidman going in for surrogacy has helped spread the word about the option and make people aware of it, says author Kishwar Desai, whose new book deals with the issue of assisted reproduction. Desai dealt with female foeticide and infanticide in India in her award-winning "Witness the Night", the first of the Simran Singh trilogy. Her second book "Origins of Love" is...
06:08 PM, Mar 29, 2012
London: Shun 'arrogant' artificial fertilisation treatment; sex is the 'only acceptable' way to conceive - that's Pope Benedict's message to infertile couples across the world. According to the Pontiff, artificial methods of getting pregnant, like the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), were simply "arrogance" and matrimony was the "only place worthy of the call to existence of a new human being". Speaking at the end of a three-day Vatican conference on infertility...
12:45 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao are among the first celebrities to talk about it openly, but how many Indians are turning to surrogacy? ...
10:01 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao are among the first celebrities to talk about it openly, but how many Indians are turning to surrogacy? Or even know about the possibilities of IVF? It's a pressing issue given that 30 million couples in India struggle with infertility. A boon to those couples, In-Vitro Fertilisation or IVF is a technique in which eggs are fertilised outside the body, and then implanted...
01:54 PM, Dec 07, 2011
London: After four miscarriages and six failed IVF treatments, Mandy Parry was so depressed that she wanted to die. But a consultation with a fertility astrologer finally fulfilled her dream of becoming a mother. "Mark and I had spent more than 50,000 pounds on treatments and we'd both taken ¬second jobs to pay for them. All the heartbreak had made me ¬profoundly depressed. At times, I wanted to die. The...
07:24 PM, Jan 21, 2011
New York: Is laughter the best medicine? Perhaps not always - but it may help women who are trying to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), an Israeli study found. In a study of 219 women undergoing IVF published in Fertility and Sterility, an Israeli team led by Shevach Friedler found that the odds of success were greater among women who were entertained by a professional "medical clown" just after...
10:42 AM, Jan 13, 2011
London: Scientists claim to have developed a new in vitro fertilisation (IVF) test that detects faulty embryos and trebles a woman's chance of giving birth to a healthy baby. The new technique involves taking a sample from embryos when they are five days old and checking each of its 23 pairs of chromosomes. Only the healthiest single embryo is implanted in the womb, say the scientists. The method could spare...
04:20 PM, Oct 27, 2010
However, many consider giving birth at an old age using IVF treatment as unethical. ...
11:22 AM, Jun 21, 2010
Bhateri Devi underwent in vitro fertilisation at Haryana's National Fertility Centre. ...
08:35 PM, Jun 15, 2010
You would be hard pressed to find a venture capital firm like IVFA in India. ...
02:16 PM, Sep 04, 2009
The couple relied on IVF which resulted in three sets of twins. ...
04:57 PM, Jul 10, 2009
While IVF costs over a lakh, INVO can be managed within 30,000 INR. ...
03:17 PM, Mar 09, 2009
Doctors screened the cells of the embryo before implanting into womb. ...
05:08 PM, Jan 12, 2009
The baby is healthy and weighs 2.5 kilos. ...
12:03 AM, Aug 29, 2008
The search for the perfect sperm stops at nothing but the best. ...
01:31 PM, Aug 28, 2008
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