Explainer: When will IVF treatment be provided through the Irish public health service?
New fertility hubs will be open next year, with IVF available in 2021.
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New fertility hubs will be open next year, with IVF available in 2021.
One course of IVF treatment can cost between €4,000 and €4,500.
People should think before they speak when it comes to fertility issues, Julie Ronaghan writes.
Valeriy Zukin has used the procedure to help infertile couples have children.
It’s hoped that 3D-printed skin, ears, bone scaffolds, and heart valves could solve a number of medical issues.
An optical attachment analyses video of semen.
The Clane Fertility Clinic is going to start using the technique to help the IVF process.
“You can’t just bring up the “do you want kids” conversation over your first date martini,” writes Clare McAfee two years after her ‘horrible diagnosis’.
The Cork Fertility Centre has announced the breakthrough.
A new, controversial embryo-growth breakthrough could help science in the study of infertility. However, fears abound that the research breaches ethical guidelines.
The HSE says it’s something they’ve been taking seriously for a long time.
To be told you cannot conceive on your own is devastating, cruel and unfair, writes Jennifer Ryan Moran.
Ovulation calendars, doctors’ appointments, tests and treatments start to take over.
An anonymous contributor talks about her struggle to conceive and the emotional impact it can have on a person.
Up to one in five women are estimated to be affected by the condition.
At 28, Turner Syndrome continues to dominate my life and now the time is right to step out from the invisible wall I seem to have built around myself.
The Medical Director of Sims IVF says removing surrogacy from the Child and Family Relationships Bill is a lost opportunity.
An Irish support group has asked couples not to panic about a recent study.
It’s not as funny as it sounds.
Dealing with my own infertility and the emotional journey that is IVF was full of anguish, but now we have our beautiful twins – and I love them so much it’s overwhelming.
In the past, people with cystic fibrosis typically died in childhood. But now that we have longer lifespans we are often faced with a new problem: infertility.
There can be an emphasis on the woman when talking about infertility, but men hurt deeply too.
The National Infertility Support and Information Group is working ‘to banish the taboo’ around infertility.
Male infertility is responsible for about 50 per cent of infertility in Ireland.
The ‘time-lapse’ technology can pinpoint the abnormalities in human embryos that cause IVF failure or miscarriage and raises live birth rates by 56 per cent.
It’s a long way from working in humans but researchers have made a leap forward.
Senior clinical embryologist at Beacon Court in Dublin welcomes the new research stating embryo freezing and waiting for a better conditioned womb linings may be the way forward.
Maeve Binchy’s books would have been different if she’d had children, according to one newspaper. Abigail Rieley asks: Why do we put this pressure on women?
Pope Benedict also said that infertile couples should shun artificial procreation.
Helen Browne describes her experience of infertility, and asks for people to be more sensitive to this painful condition.
Japanese researchers have cultivated sperm from the testes of baby mice.
New research shows that the treatment itself may double the risk.