A powerful task force of scientists and clinicians specialising in assisted conception have mounted a major campaign to close gaps in knowledge about cross border reproduction in the Asia Pacific region. Each year thousands of infertile couples travel the world for third party reproduction in the quest to achieve their dream of parenthood. The [...]
More than 1,700 fertility specialists from 50 countries attended the 9th Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE 2019) in Hong Kong to explore the latest advances in scientific research and clinical care of people experiencing infertility. It has been one of the most influential meetings on assisted reproduction ever presented in [...]
About 15 per cent of adults around the world experience male or female infertility, and many of them turn to advanced assisted reproductive technologies, such as IVF, to help fulfil their dreams of parenthood. More than eight million babies have been born from IVF, and the number is increasing significantly as infertility levels escalate [...]
The deeper implications of falling fertility rates in South East Asia, particularly China and Japan, have been brought into sharp focus at a global conference on human reproduction in Hong Kong. A bleak outlook has been portrayed in social and economic terms if the population downturn trend continues. Speaking at the 9th Congress of [...]
Many couples feeling stressed about not being able to conceive naturally make radical lifestyle changes, including changing jobs or taking a holiday, in the hope that it will improve their chances of having a baby. But the quest for a more relaxed lifestyle may not actually deliver the conception and baby they so desperately [...]
More than eight million children have been born around the world as a result of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) since the first so-called test tube baby was delivered in England over 40 years ago. Scientist Robert Edwards and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe – the pioneering "Fathers of IVF" – took ten years of intensive research, [...]
A global congress on fertility health in Hong Kong this week will hear of disturbing gaps in access to female contraception across the Asia Pacific region with the poor and young most vulnerable. Assistant Professor Susan Logan, a Singapore-based specialist in sexual and reproductive health, said public access to contraception and broader reproductive health [...]
A world authority on human reproductive health is calling for a global response to an alarming decline in male fertility with an estimated one in 20 young men today having sperm counts low enough to impede conception. Christopher Barratt, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at the University of Dundee in Scotland, said the world had [...]
A new study has provided further evidence that electromagnetic waves from WiFi devices can have a detrimental effect on human sperm. The outcome adds weight to concerns that the explosive spread of mobile telephones and other devices relying on WiFi connection may be contributing to declining fertility rates in developed countries. The Japanese study, [...]
