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It is 30 years since the first successful frozen egg pregnancy was conceived. For many years, egg freezing was considered to be a low-chance option for fertility preservation, needing 100 eggs to get one live birth. For young women with cancer who were facing the near-inevitable sterility of chemotherapy or radiotherapy, the prospect of freezing… Continue reading Social Egg-Freezing: Empowering but not an Insurance Policy

The advent of successful Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis has been very encouraging for people at risk of passing on debilitating genetic conditions. PGD is an advanced fertility treatment which enables couples, who are at known risk of a specific genetic condition, to avoid passing it on to their children. The couple conceive by means of IVF… Continue reading Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD): A Case for State Funding

Matt Cooper discusses a new test that can double IVF success rates to over 80% with Prof. Dagan Wells from Reprogenetics, Oxford, UK. This test could be hugely beneficial for would-be parents who often face multiple disappointments and considerable expense going through repeated IVF treatment cycles. Listen back to the interview, (minute 17): http://www.todayfm.com/player/shows/The_Last_Word_with_Matt_Cooper/7/24118/20th_October_2015_-_The_Last_Word_with_Matt_Cooper_Part_3

Waterstone Clinic, one of the only two centres in Ireland to provide Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) and Pre-implantation Genetic Screening (PGS) treatment, and the only centre to have a recognised successful programme in place, have an established relationship with Reprogenetics, Oxford, UK. Reprogenetics are recognised leaders and provide PGD and PGS services to fertility centre’s… Continue reading PGD and PGS Treatment Available at Waterstone Clinic

Experts have discovered that the levels of a particular type of DNA in a developing embryo are a crucial factor in whether a pregnancy will be successful and a simple test can be used to select the most viable embryos. The development has the potential to revolutionise the success rate of fertility treatment, which currently… Continue reading IVF test could more than double success rate to over 80 per cent

When it comes to fertility there is one certain enemy: time. As women age, the quality of their eggs deteriorates and the quantity decreases as eggs are released every menstrual cycle. Eggs are also vulnerable to attacks on the body, which is why health practitioners have been offering egg freezing to women undergoing chemotherapy for… Continue reading Egg freezing just puts more pressure on women

Couples at risk of passing on certain genetic conditions to their children should be provided with financial support from the Government to undergo the advanced fertility treatment, PGD, a leading fertility doctor has claimed. PGD (pre-implantation genetic diagnosis) allows people with a specific inherited condition the option of trying to avoid passing it on to… Continue reading Healthy baby born after PGD fertility treatment

An Irish couple who discovered they were both carrying a potentially fatal gene when their first baby died have become proud parents of a girl free from an inherited disease. The couple had underwent a revolutionary diagnostic process prior to an embryo being implanted. The baby girl is the first child to be born free… Continue reading Couple celebrate birth of child free of rare inherited disease

Scientists recently suggested that even if a woman wanted to have only one child she should not wait past the age of 32 to become a mother.  The so-called fertility calculator was drawn up by scientists in the University of Sheffield who crunched fertility data on more than 58,000 women. In response, Dr John Waterstone… Continue reading Irish experts’ fertility calculator warning

We all want to be our healthiest selves, and we often get advice from friends, family, blogs (touche), and “Dr. Google”. Supplements are big business in the United States, accounting for millions of dollars in sales each year. Many patients who are trying to get pregnant want to use natural supplements instead of prescriptions or… Continue reading Fertility Supplements: Heroes or Villains?