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Finding a positive path through IVF
It’s not surprising that IVF is often seen as a negative journey towards the ultimate positive, but having a glass-half-full approach can make a big difference to the experience.
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Why IVF success rates may not be what you think
Transparency, accountability and responsibilityare essential measures to protect IVF vulnerable patients.
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IVF clinics in the firing line for making false and misleading claims
Some of Australia's leading IVF clinics have been caught advertising false and misleading information about their success rates in what the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has described as a "race to the bottom" targeting vulnerable people.
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'It's not really a choice': Jo's $32,000 babies
Fertility clinics are selling unproven and expensive treatments to desperate couples, as the number of women seeking IVF treatment continues to rise.
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Why connecting with our son's sperm donor siblings changed our lives
In the spring of 2012, while my wife was reading novels on Cape Cod, I was glued to my laptop, shopping for sperm.
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Justin Hemmes opens waterfront, family mansion in aid of public IVF centre
It's not every day you get to hang out in Merivale boss Justin Hemmes' back garden, but the millionaire bar tsar opened up his palatial family home on Thursday to raise funds for a fertility centre.
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Boys born through common IVF technique may suffer infertility, study finds
Boys born through a common type of IVF treatment are suffering from low sperm counts and may not be able to have children naturally, a study suggests.
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Woman wins right to have her dead husband's baby
After a lengthy court case, a 42-year-old British woman has won the right to use her deceased husband's sperm to have a baby.
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IVF patients lose embryos in SA storms
Twelve families have lost embryos at an Adelaide fertility clinic hit by power outages.
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Canberra Fertility Centre celebrates 30 years of making families
On Sunday the Canberra Fertility Centre celebrates 30 years of making families in the national capital.
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Call for free IVF for most disadvantaged
The patient had been raped. Her fallopian tubes had to be taken because he'd given her gonorrhoea. And with them had gone her dream of becoming a mother.
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$200,000 babies: how much should Medicare fund?
The president of IVF's peak body says that there is little taxpayer value in subsidising treatment after a woman turns 45.
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Empty nest: how women are raiding their super to fund IVF
Lisa Mahar, 37, recently learned she needed IVF to increase her chances of having a baby. She had to move fast.
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