SINGAPORE: Policy makers around the world are not ready for a new demographic order of global depopulation and how it will recast societies, economies and power politics. With birth rates plummeting globally, countries face a future of shrinking and ageing societies driven by an unrelenting collapse in fertility. Family structures and living arrangements previously [...]
SINGAPORE: Artificial intelligence, or AI, is transforming our lives in dynamic and challenging ways, including the ability to create life. In assisted reproduction, AI and automation tools have taken fertility specialists to new frontiers in precision, efficiency and personalisation with the technology beaming with promise for patients striving for parenthood. However, a world leader [...]
SINGAPORE: A simple, but revolutionary test has been developed to help unravel the mystery of infertility among men who display normal semen parameters. Infertility affects an estimated one in every six couples worldwide with male factor prevalent in about half of those cases. For many of those men who have seemingly otherwise healthy sperm [...]
Presenting fatherhood as cool, admirable and masculine is likely to headline a new fertility rebound initiative across the Asia Pacific region as birth rates continue to fall at alarming levels. Renowned reproductive endocrinologist Emeritus Professor Dominique de Ziegler said a “gender revolution” had seen increasing numbers of women delaying motherhood to enter the public [...]
SINGAPORE: Latest population studies have cast new light on genetic influences on women’s reproductive lifespans and possible markers for the onset of chronic diseases. Evidence is growing that conditions such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and neurodegenerative disorders are associated with reduced ovarian reserve, which refers to the number of healthy [...]
SINGAPORE: Gamete donation has accelerated around the world in the past decade driven in part by the emergence of commercial sperm and egg banks and a growing recognition of the validity of this form of family building among same sex couples and single women in some countries. However, lack of regulation on donor conception [...]
SINGAPORE: Fertility specialists in the Asia Pacific region are bringing to fruition new standards of care for women and girls suffering from endometriosis and to help preserve the fertility of those with the debilitating condition. They have finalised a rigorous consensus process to create a defined and auditable standard for networks of expertise for [...]
Singapore will this week become the epicentre of latest global knowledge and advances in the treatment of infertility that affects an estimated one in six couples around the world. The 2025 Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE), to be held at the Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre from 1 to 4 [...]
Specialists in fertility health throughout the Asia Pacific region are advancing strategies that have the potential to dramatically reverse declining population projections this century. They are also working to create APAC centres and networks of excellence to improve the lives of millions of women and teenage girls who suffer from the painful and debilitating [...]
Asian Pacific leaders in reproductive health are calling on tertiary education sectors and employers to introduce family friendly study programs and workplace flexibility measures to help arrest an alarming decline in birth rates. In many countries in the Asia Pacific, total fertility rates have plummeted below population replacement levels posing serious social and economic [...]
