ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: A pathfinding Chinese study has found that women who have suffered two or more miscarriages have a significantly higher risk of obstetric and perinatal complications in subsequent pregnancies. It has cast light on a possible altered micro-environment at the maternal-foetal interface in women with recurrent miscarriage that may affect foetal growth [...]
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Around the world, soaring numbers of women are electing to freeze their eggs to preserve their fertility, and many do so in anticipation of a “fairy tale ending” with the birth of a healthy baby. However, a reality check is needed to manage the expectations of many women opting for social [...]
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Deep rooted historical preference for sons over daughters continues to be customary in some East and South Asian countries devaluing women and posing long term threats to society. This disturbing situation, often leading to female feticide – or sex selective abortion – has been particularly prevalent where males are more valued [...]
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Societies around the world are being confronted by inexorable evidence of falling fertility rates and environmental collapse that pose major threats to humanity. Nowhere is this free fall into a potentially irreversible fertility trap more evident than in Asia Pacific countries including China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore. This [...]
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Evolutionary medicine is refining the human gene pool at embryonic level to eliminate many inherited diseases while accelerating the influence of artificial intelligence to help diagnose and treat other factors that impact human health and reproduction. The study of human biology in coming decades will reach new frontiers of discovery about [...]
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Advanced research is casting light on possible early life factors – including poverty, physical or mental abuse ¬– that may impact the rate of egg loss and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in post-menopausal women. Traditionally, cardiovascular disease in women has been associated with loss of ovarian function with the [...]
Academic, medical and public sector experts across the Asia Pacific region have contributed to an innovative toolkit designed to guide policy makers in addressing social and economic challenges associated with free-falling birth rates in APAC countries. The toolkit is based on rigorous analysis of total fertility rate challenges to determine the effectiveness of different [...]
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Psychological issues including anxiety, depression and negative body image are adding to the physical burden of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a hormonal disorder that affects 12 per cent of women globally. International research has revealed that the prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms associated with PCOS are high and poorly understood [...]
The 2023 Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE) will burst back to a face-to-face format in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions with South Australia’s capital city Adelaide to host the event. The Congress will be presented at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 7 to 10 September next year addressing the theme [...]
Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE) 2022 Congress The 2022 Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE) put delegates from 43 countries at the vanguard of scientific research and medical practice in the diagnosis and treatment of human infertility. Presented in virtual format because of on-going COVID-19 issues, the Congress from 28 [...]
