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Around 10 Australian couples are left in legal limbo in Cambodia — unable to bring surrogate babies home months after their birth — as they wait for the Government in Phnom Penh to draft new laws on surrogacy.
Topics: parenting, babies, fertility-and-infertility, law-crime-and-justice, cambodia, australia
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From fertility "Fitbits" to at-home sperm testing kits, innovative new devices are transforming the way we think about making babies, writes Jo Fox.
Topics: fertility-and-infertility, men, women, reproductive-technology, womens-health, internet-technology, australia
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| UpdatedCritics call it a social construct, but venture into some online chatrooms and you'll find hundreds of Australian women who suffer "gender disappointment" — depression over the sex of their children.
Topics: fertility-and-infertility, reproduction-and-contraception, health, parenting, family-and-children, community-and-society, women, womens-health, australia
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| UpdatedPop star Janet Jackson gives birth at the age of 50 to her first child, a boy named Eissa, her publicist says.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, fertility-and-infertility, united-states
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| UpdatedAbout 40 Australian couples face abandoning hopes of a family, after an Australian woman is charged with running an illegal surrogacy clinic in Cambodia.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, parenting, babies, fertility-and-infertility, cambodia, australia
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| UpdatedA South Australian fertility clinic, which lost dozens of embryos after a generator failed during the statewide blackout last month, reveals plans it started months ago to move to a new site.
Topics: health, environmental-health, healthcare-facilities, fertility-and-infertility, reproduction-and-contraception, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe world's first baby using a controversial new technique employed by US scientists to include DNA from three parents in the embryo is born, a report says.
Topics: fertility-and-infertility, reproduction-and-contraception, health, babies---newborns, science-and-technology, dna, genetics, mexico, united-states, jordan
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Topics: fertility-and-infertility, beef-cattle, research, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedDoctors push for more fertility preservation procedures to be covered by Medicare for young people facing cancer, something a young Adelaide woman says would give patients more choice over their future.
Topics: cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-procedures, medical-research, reproduction-and-contraception, fertility-and-infertility, pregnancy-and-childbirth, adelaide-5000, sa
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Fertility specialists knock back calls for more regulation of the IVF industry, saying Australia is an international leader in infertility research and treatment governed by a code of practice that is the envy of the world.
Topics: health, fertility-and-infertility, australia
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Australian women are seeking IVF in unprecedented numbers, but can we blame them? Women delay pregnancy because society makes it so hard to be a mother, writes Amy Gray.
Topics: children, feminism, women, womens-health, fertility-and-infertility, reproductive-technology, australia
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| UpdatedFertility patients should ask their doctor about their credentials, IVF alternatives and their chance of giving birth from one treatment cycle, a leading specialist says.
Topics: health, reproduction-and-contraception, fertility-and-infertility, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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| UpdatedAuthor Julia Leigh details the expensive, emotional limbo that is IVF, and her hopes for a more honest conversation about fertility.
Topics: reproductive-technology, fertility-and-infertility, womens-health, women, books-literature
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A company in Japan has developed a kit that allows men to use their phones to check their sperm count in the comfort of their home.
Topics: mobile-phones, information-technology, reproductive-technology, fertility-and-infertility, japan
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Brahman breeders Wayne Porter from Sth Africa, Michael from Australia and Billy Badeeya from the Philipspines talk about the importance of the breed in the tropics and improving productivity using objective measurement and IVF
Topics: fertility-and-infertility, beef-cattle, genetics, rockhampton-4700
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Artist Joshua Yeldham was targeted by school bullies, but found his feet through travel and a successful foray into film-making. Nowadays his focus is on family, fine art and the mysticism of the Australian landscape.
Topics: visual-art, photography, books-literature, contemporary-art, film-movies, sculpture, painting, fine-art-photography, environment, fertility-and-infertility, pregnancy-and-childbirth, lifestyle-and-leisure, australia, switzerland, venezuela, united-states
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| UpdatedCrocodile sperm is more like human sperm than scientists previously thought, according to new research that could help in the search for causes of male human infertility.
Topics: science-and-technology, fertility-and-infertility, reptiles, conservation, australia, united-states
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An international team of researchers identifies two genes that increase the chance of mothers having non-identical — or dizygotic — twins.
Topics: science-and-technology, reproduction-and-contraception, fertility-and-infertility, united-states, australia
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Topics: fertility-and-infertility, karratha-6714
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Couples having difficulties conceiving a child have added challenges if they live in regional Australia.
Topics: fertility-and-infertility, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedA man who dreamt about frozen sperm more than three decades ago ended up creating one of the world's busiest sperm banks.
Topics: reproduction-and-contraception, fertility-and-infertility, community-and-society, denmark
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| UpdatedA South African fertility company sparks renewed debate about the ethics of recruiting young women from overseas to donate their eggs to Australian women.
Topics: fertility-and-infertility, reproduction-and-contraception, health, south-africa, australia, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedConsumer watchdog the ACCC says a review of dozens of IVF clinics has found evidence of misleading information being given to people hoping to conceive.
Topics: reproduction-and-contraception, fertility-and-infertility, womens-health, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedMalta is ranked as the most progressive country in the world for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and genderqueer (LGBTIQ) rights, and the Maltese Government is continuing to push ahead on the issue.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, fertility-and-infertility, international-law, malta
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| UpdatedIn a world first, scientists successfully breed a litter of puppies using in vitro fertilisation.
Topics: fertility-and-infertility, reproduction-and-contraception, animal-science, united-states