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Irish Examiner By Eoin English and Catherine Shanahan Leading fertility experts have clashed over the merits of social egg-freezing, with one doctor warning women against wasting their money on trying to have a baby in this way.  John Waterstone, the vice-president of the Irish Fertility Society and medical director of the Waterstone Clinic, branded as… Continue reading Fertility experts at odds over egg freezing

Irish Examiner   By Catherine Shanahan Whether an expensive male fertility test has any bearing on improving outcomes for couples with difficulties conceiving is being examined as part of a project at Waterstone Clinic (CFC).  The sperm DNA fragmentation test, which examines the level of damaged DNA found inside the sperm head, costs, on average,… Continue reading Real effect of male fertility test to be examined

There’s an old bell jar that sits on top of a cupboard at a Cambridgeshire fertility clinic where history was made; it was in a dish inside this jar that the world’s first IVF baby spent the hours after her conception. With the success of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), scientist Robert Edwards and his gynaecologist colleague Patrick… Continue reading The amazing story of IVF

Irish Examiner By Catherine Shanahan BY the time we hit 30, most women have been bitten by the baby bug. For those who have met Mr Right, there is opportunity to try for that child. For those who have not, motherhood may look like a long shot. Certainly, in the past, singledom equalled a life… Continue reading Want a baby but no sign of Mr Right?

Irish Examiner By Eoin English A leading Irish fertility clinic is to begin screening embryos for cystic fibrosis (CF) to help couples facing difficult family planning choices. The Waterstone Clinic has been licensed by the Irish Medicines Board to carry out embryo biopsy as part of its new pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) treatment. It will… Continue reading Clinic to screen embryos for cystic fibrosis

Time-lapse imaging which takes thousands of pictures of developing embryos can boost the success rate of IVF, according to British research. The method, reported in Reproductive BioMedicine Online, can be used to select embryos at low risk of defects. Scientists at the CARE fertility group say such informed selection can improve birth rates by 56%.… Continue reading IVF may be boosted by time-lapse embryo imaging

Sperm DNA damage is more common in infertile men and may contribute to poor reproductive performance. However, current methods for assessing sperm DNA integrity do not reliably predict treatment outcomes and cannot be recommended routinely for clinical use. Read more; http://www.asrm.org/uploadedFiles/ASRM_Content/News_and_Publications/Practice_Guidelines/Committee_Opinions/The_clinical_utility(1).pdf

Sperm donation: May be second choice but it’s not second best Attitudes to egg and sperm donation have moved on a lot, with people much more open about the process A British couple who became parents to two children by sperm donation close to 30 years ago say Irish couples are very receptive to the… Continue reading Huge Interest in Donor Conception Information Day

Irish couples at risk of having a child with Cystic Fibrosis (CF), Ireland’s most common genetic disease, will no longer have to travel abroad to avail of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) treatment. Waterstone Clinic has been licensed by The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) to carry out embryo biopsy. All new born Irish babies have been… Continue reading Waterstone Clinic Offers Embryo Screening for Cystic Fibrosis