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With China’s birth rate taking a nosedive, top political advisor proposes egg freezing for single women
The political advisor’s recommendations come amid Chinese authorities trying to bolster a sharply declining birth rate with incentives including expanding maternity leave, financial and tax benefits for having children as well as housing subsidies
Humanity’s future in danger: Experts say why physical intimacy has become less fruitful
Recent studies have found that over the last 50 years, human sperm counts appear to have fallen by more than 50 per cent around the globe
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Care before carrying: The significant role of Preimplantation Genetic Testing during IVF
PGT-A is an advanced technique for detecting chromosomal defects in IVF embryos
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Stigma surrounding IVF and the reality behind it
Infertility continues to be stigmatised and women continue to be discriminated against, putting them under enormous emotional strain
Gujarat HC allows collection of critical COVID-19 patient’s sample to facilitate IVF for wife
The court also issued notices to the state government and the hospital's director, and sought their response on 23 July.
'Good day for our country': France adopts bill legalising IVF access for lesbian couples, single women
Under current French law, only heterosexual couples have the right to access medically assisted procreation methods such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
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Scientists discover new way to isolate high-quality quality sperm to help improve IVF success rate
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Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulation Bill addresses regulation lacunae in fertility industry, but its non-inclusiveness is troubling
When it comes to women and their wombs, legislators don’t seem to understand the necessity of having well thought out, supportive — and timely — laws. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Regulation Bill 2020 is a case in point.
Kareena Kapoor Khan on reuniting with Akshay Kumar for Good Newwz and auditioning for Aamir Khan's Laal Singh Chadha
Kareena Kapoor Khan discusses reuniting with Aamir Khan for Laal Singh Chadha, returning to comedy, and playing a pregnant woman in Good Newwz.
Akshay Kumar on three consecutive hits in 2019 with Kesari, Mission Mangal, Housefull 4, and his hopes for Good Newwz
Akshay Kumar says he moves on swiftly from one role to another, like he did from a comedy, Housefull 4 to another, Good Newwz, within two months.
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Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: A fertility treatment side effect you need to know about before you sign up
One in 100 women who take hormone-based fertility treatments gets moderate to severe symptoms, but 33% get mild symptoms like bloating.
As an AP woman bears children at 74, ethics of fertility treatments and necessary restrictions must be grappled with
Fertility experts strongly feel that this growing trend of using IVF to satisfy the demands of over-aged parents is setting a detrimental precedent. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2017, which continues to lie in cold storage, is the only proposed legislation which deals with a situation like this.
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A 74-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh gives birth to twins: Why pregnancy after menopause isn’t as safe for everyone
Erramatti Mangayamma, 74, became the oldest woman in the world to give birth to twins on Thursday in a nursing home in Guntur city, Andhra Pradesh.
First test tube baby born on this day in 1978 to an infertile couple in Manchester
In December of 2006, the first test-tube baby Louise Brown gave birth to a boy, who was conceived naturally.
Genetic risk tests are widely available, they could be harmful and aren't always useful
New polygenic scores are calculated form hundreds and thousands of genetic markers from one's DNA
First baby born to three parents in a revolutionary new DNA-switching treatment
This technique was developed to help mothers who had failed multiple times to conceive through IVF.
The new frontier of egg freezing and delayed motherhood for women in India
Banking of eggs for pregnancy is often either a medical or social choice & is on the rise in India.
World's first CRISPR gene-edited babies claimed by Chinese researcher as success
Society will decide what to do next in terms of allowing or forbidding such science: Researcher.
Michelle Obama lets loose blast of anger at Donald Trump in upcoming memoir 'Becoming' - out next week
Michelle Obama says she felt "lost and alone" after suffering a miscarriage 20 years ago and she and Barack Obama underwent in vitro fertilization to conceive their two daughters.
Pune woman becomes grandmother to twins born using dead son's preserved semen
A Pune-based woman became a grandmother to twins born via surrogacy methods using her son's cryo-preserved semen.