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The rich fatty solution was found to boost IVF success rates by six times in a recent study

By Paul Bentley

PUBLISHED: 05:01 EST, 17 May 2012 | UPDATED: 16:24 EST, 17 May 2012

After four exhausting and expensive attempts at IVF failed, Sara and Matthew Conyers feared they were never going to have a family of their own.

But five years after the couples fertility nightmare began they are celebrating the birth of twins thanks to the help of a side treatment which involved Mrs Conyers being drip-fed a diet of egg yolks and soya oil.

Doctors believe it could help more women achieve their dream of motherhood, with studies showing the concoction has a remarkable success rate at overcoming an immune system problem in which killer cells attack a fertilised embryo.

A delighted Sara and Matthew with their twin boys William and Ben who were born following a fifth round of IVF

Mrs Conyers, 33, a teacher, and her husband Matthew, 40, a financial adviser, began trying for a child immediately after they married in August 2007.

After two and a half years with no pregnancy the couple decided to try private IVF treatment.

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“This condition in its severe form is potentially fatal and women have died. A recent confidential inquiry into maternal deaths in the UK showed that OHSS was now one of the biggest causes of maternal mortality in England and Wales.

“There is no doubt that women subjected to this kind of stimulation are at serious health risk.”

Figures obtained using freedom of information laws from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) showed that there were almost 30,000 cases of OHSS – which can cause chest pains, shortness of breath, and in rare cases, kidney failure and death – between 1991 and 2007 in the UK, The Independent reported.

In 2010, 45,000 women were given IVF treatment in the UK.

Using “mild” IVF with less toxic drugs to stimulate the ovaries produces fewer eggs and a lower pregnancy rate per cycle but means recovery is quicker and women can repeat the treatment within a month, whereas it takes months to recover from standard IVF.

While clinics in Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, France, Canada, Japan and South Korea use mild IVF, the high-dose version is favoured the US and the UK.

Professor Nargund said: “The aim should be to do no harm to the mother and the child. If we continue with expensive, aggressive, old-fashioned IVF it will exclude too many from treatment.

“We could double the number of patients treated at no extra cost and the complications would be less.”

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IVF clinics in the UK are practising aggressive fertility treatments that are putting women and children at unjustified risk, experts say.

The commercially driven industry uses unnecessary procedures, high doses of powerful drugs and risky interventions to help desperate couples spending thousands of pounds to conceive.

But a milder, safer approach to IVF could provide equivalent success rates over a longer period at a lower cost and could enable the NHS to double the number of patients treated for the same budget. The UK is lagging behind other countries in adopting the approach, the experts say.

Professor Geeta Nargund, head of reproductive medicine at St George’s Hospital, south London, told a conference in Copenhagen that there was increasing evidence that the standard method of IVF used in the UK, involving stimulating the ovaries with high doses of drugs to produce large numbers of eggs for harvesting, was detrimental to the health of women and caused chromosomal abnormalities in the resulting embryos.

“High-dose stimulation can have distressing side effects on the woman, the most serious of which is called ovarian hyper-stimulation syndrome (OHSS). This condition in its severe form is potentially fatal and women have died,” Professor Nargund told the conference. She added: “A recent confidential inquiry into maternal deaths in the UK showed that OHSS was now one of the biggest causes of maternal mortality in England and Wales.”

There were almost 30,000 cases of OHSS which can cause chest pains shortness of breath and, in rare cases, kidney failure and death between 1991 and 2007 in the UK, according to figures obtained from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

“There is no doubt that women subjected to this kind of stimulation are at serious health risk and yet the HFEA appears to hide behind a confidentiality clause when it comes to releasing clinical complications,” Professor Nargund said, speaking at the congress of the International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction, of which she is president.

IVF has grown increasingly popular over the last two decades with 45,000 women treated in the UK in 2010. The use of less toxic drugs to stimulate the ovaries, known as “mild” IVF, produces fewer eggs and a lower pregnancy rate per cycle. But it means recovery is quicker and patients can repeat the treatment within a month. Standard IVF takes months to recover from.

Clinics in Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, France, Canada, Japan and South Korea have adopted mild IVF, but, in the US and UK, high-dose IVF is preferred.

“The aim should be to do no harm to the mother and the child. If we continue with expensive, aggressive, old-fashioned IVF it will exclude too many from treatment. We could double the number of patients treated at no extra cost and the complications would be less,” Professor Nargund said.

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Gynaecologists recommend end to free IVF for women over 41

Monday 14 May 2012

The national gynaecologists’ association recommended on Monday that women over the age of 41 pay the cost of IVF fertility treatment themselves.

The NVOG was asked to look at ways of saving 30m a year on fertility services and said this would be one method of reducing costs, the association is quoted as saying.

At the moment, the basic health insurance package pays for three IVF sessions for women up to the age of 45 but the cabinet plans to restrict this to one treatment from next year.

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However, excluding older women would have more effect than restricting treatment, Utrecht professor Bart Fauser told the NRC.

‘We would rather not have to make any savings but we were asked to think about it,’ Fauser said, referring to cabinet plans to slash the 50m fertility treatment budget by more than half.

One course of IVF treatment costs some 3,000. Some 10% of patients are currently over the age of 41.

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Gabby Logan opens Cambridge IVF

Television presenter Gabby Logan had two treasured reasons to officially open Cambridge IVF today (May 14).

The former gymnast, who had twin boys by IVF treatment, unveiled a plaque at the only comprehensive assisted conception facility in the NHS in the region.

Opened to patients in September, the facility is a new purpose-built assisted conception unit offering high-quality, personalised care based on the very latest science and research.

Mr Raj Mathur, Cambridge IVFs lead clinician, said: “Cambridge IVF is now unrivalled as the only NHS comprehensive assisted conception unit in the region, and its establishment builds on 20 years of experience.

“The wide clinical expertise of our team, matched with our state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, combined with the links with Addenbrookes, Cambridge University and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, means that we can offer the very best care and treatment.”

Dr Mary Archer, chairman of Cambridge University Hospitals hosted the event.

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Ms Chloe Lau, 34, and her husband Darren Potter, 39, with their children (from left) five-year-old Sophia and four-year-old twins Amanda and Laurence. Ms Lau went through two successful cycles of IVF treatment. — ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN

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In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) works better for younger women; the older the woman, the harder it is for the treatment to be successful.

Fertility expert Loh Seong Feei, who was speaking at the launch of a new IVF hormone stimulant on Friday, said the success rate of IVF treatments falls significantly for women over 35 years old.

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A Sheffield scientist who has helped change the way IVF treatment is carried out across the country has been named Healthcare Scientist of the Year.

Rachel Cutting, Principal Embryologist at the Assisted Conception Unit at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was given the award by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley at the Chief Scientific Officers Healthcare Science event last week.

The Healthcare Scientist of the Year award is granted annually by the Department of Health as part of an award scheme that recognises outstanding individual achievement within the health service. The winners are selected annually by the Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Sue Hill OBE.

The award recognises in particular Rachels uncompromising commitment to a project called One at a time, which promotes single embryo transfer during IVF treatment. The award also acknowledged Rachels outstanding leadership, and her dedication to teamwork and promoting better outcomes for patients.

Rachel, who has worked in assisted conception in Sheffield since 1994, said: It was a wonderful surprise to be awarded Healthcare Scientist of the year at the awards. It recognises the work of the One at a time project, which promotes patient safety by reducing multiple pregnancies.

Whilst I received the award, it reflects the hard work done by many dedicated people who I am fortunate to work alongside and I would like to thank my colleagues for all the support they have given me.

The One at a time project has focused on improving patient safety by promoting single embryo transfer for mothers undergoing IVF treatment. The biggest single risk factor for mothers and babies following fertility treatment is multiple births, which lead to higher mortality rates. Approximately one in four treatment pregnancies are a multiple pregnancy compared to one in 80 for women who conceive naturally.

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Despite the label of being “infertile,” some couples who have tried fertility treatments are later able to have a baby naturally, according to a new study from France.

In some instances from the research, the parents had had another child previously using in vitro fertilization (IVF) — while in other cases the couple had a baby even after an unsuccessful experience with IVF.

“Most infertile couples think that they are unable to conceive spontaneously whereas our study shows (this) remains possible,” Dr. Pnlope Troude at the French national medical research institute, INSERM, wrote in an email to Reuters Health.

“Our results should give hope to couples who have been unsuccessfully treated by IVF,” Troude and her colleagues wrote in their report, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

Researchers have previously reported that couples waiting for IVF treatment will occasionally drop off of the wait list because they become pregnant without fertility treatment — what doctors refer to as a “spontaneous” pregnancy.

To get a better sense of how frequently people going through IVF end up having babies without extra help, Troude and her colleagues collected information on about 2,100 couples who had begun fertility treatment in France in the early 2000s.

About 1,300 of those couples successfully ended up having a baby through IVF.

Eight to 10 years later, the couples responded to a survey about whether they’d had a child on their own following fertility treatment.

Among the parents who’d had a baby through IVF, 17 percent later had another child without assistance. And among couples who originally failed to have a baby with fertility treatment, 24 percent went on to have one from a spontaneous pregnancy.

“It must be borne in mind that infertility did not mean no chance to conceive but low or very low chance to conceive,” Troude said.

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Survey shows injections used by 20,000 British couples a year reveals one in ten babies born with abnormalities Findings show all other IVF procedures are safe Clinics accused of profiting from more expensive procedure

By Jo Mcfarlane

PUBLISHED: 16:57 EST, 5 May 2012 | UPDATED: 17:24 EST, 5 May 2012

Fertility clinics are facing demands to restrict the most popular form of IVF after a shocking new report linked it to an increased risk of birth defects.

The study created a major alert after revealing the ICSI treatment, used by 23,000 women in the UK every year, creates a sky high chance of having a baby with serious abnormalities.

The procedure, which involves injecting a single sperm into an egg, is used in both the NHS and the private sector, and now represents more than half of all IVF treatments. But it is more expensive than standard IVF, raising fears some clinics may be promoting it to increase profits.

Scientists behind the latest survey of 300,000 births found that one child in ten born following ICSI has a defect twice the level of the general population but that standard IVF has no extra risks compared with natural births.

Crucial moment: A single sperm is injected directly into an egg in ICSI treatment

Following the report, other experts called for clinics to use ICSI only when there was no medical alternative, and demanded a national database of children born from IVF be set up urgently.

Women who undergo the most popular IVF treatment in Britain are twice as likely to have babies with birth defects as the rest of the population, the shocking new survey revealed.

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Mother tragically lost a child to meningitis before she was told her fallopian tubes had fused together Doctor told her she had more chance of winning the lottery than conceiving naturally again She lost first IVF twins at six weeks

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 10:28 EST, 1 May 2012 | UPDATED: 10:28 EST, 1 May 2012

A mother who spent 40,000 on IVF over eight years in order to have a son was thrilled to conceive another child a year later, without trying.

Jenifer Heneghan, 35, and husband Kevin, 37, spent their life savings on six rounds of IVF treatment after Jenifer was told she was infertile.

My miracle babies: Jenifer Heneghan who was told she could never fall pregnant naturally with IVF son Tiernon and daughter Nuala who was conceived naturally

The couple were over joyed when she gave birth to son Tiernon in May 2010 and accepted he would never have a sibling because they couldnt afford any more IVF treatment.

But shortly after his first birthday Jenifer realised her period was late and was left stunned when a test confirmed she was pregnant.

She gave birth to her miracle daughter Nuala ten weeks ago.

The former care home manager said: ‘Weve never used contraception because I was told there was more chance of me winning the lottery than falling pregnant.

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Dublin – Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qxfpd5/india_ivf_treatmen) has announced the addition of the “India IVF Treatment Market Analysis” report to their offering.

India has a large population of 1.22 Billion people and infertility in the country is rising at a rapid rate (about 30 Million couples suffer from infertility). Infertility or the inability to have children refers to a range of disorders some of which affect the male, and some the female, and contribute to childlessness in a couple. There is also something called unexplained infertility, where doctors are unable to provide a medical explanation for the couple’s inability to conceive.

In India, approximately 15% – 20% of married couple’s in their fertile age group, suffer from infertility and it is on the increase because of urbanization, pollution, chemical exposure, stress, competitive work environment, fast-paced lifestyles, late settlement in life, more women opting to work, increased incidence of diabetes, pelvic inflammatory diseases, etc.

Today, arrays of treatment options to treat infertility are readily available in India. These include medications for ovulation induction; endoscopic surgery to correct anatomical problems; and the assisted reproductive technologies, including IUI, IVF, and ICSI (intra cytoplasmic sperm injection).

India has become one of the favored destinations for infertility treatments such as IVF due to several factors including its medical expertise, state-of-the-art technology (which is at par with the best in the world), and a cost-effective health care system.

Key Topics Covered:

1. What is In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Treatment?

2. India In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Market Overview

3. India Total Fertility Rate Profile

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A married Catholic school teacher is suing the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. She claims she was fired for undergoing IVF treatments. Her Church called her a grave immoral sinner.

Emily Herx (32), a teacher at the St Vincent de Paul School, Indiana, said a senior official at the school fired her after she divulged to her that she had received IVF treatment.

According to ABC, in 2010, Herx learned that she suffered from a medical condition which causes infertility. Herx and her husband, Brian, had made the decision to undergo IVF treatment.

She told her principal she would need time off from work to receive the treatments. He allegedly told her You are in my prayers and granted her the time off.

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(CNN) — A teacher at a Catholic school in Indiana is suing the diocese where she worked after being fired because the in vitro fertilization treatments she received were considered against church teachings.

Emily Herx, a former English teacher at St. Vincent de Paul School in Fort Wayne, filed a federal lawsuit against the school and the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.

She says in the suit filed Friday that she was discriminated against in 2011 after the school’s pastor found out that she had begun treatments with a fertility doctor, according to the complaint.

Herx says the school’s priest called her a “grave, immoral sinner” and told her she should have kept mum about her fertility treatments because some things are “better left between the individual and God,” the complaint said.

“I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong,” Herx told CNN on Thursday. “I had never had any complaints about me as a teacher.”

The diocese responded, saying it “views the core issue raised in this lawsuit as a challenge to the diocese’s right, as a religious employer, to make religious based decisions consistent with its religious standards on an impartial basis.”

In its statement, diocese officials said that “the church promotes treatment of infertility through means that respect the right to life, the unity of marriage, and procreation brought about as the fruit of the conjugal act. There are other infertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, which are not morally licit according to Catholic teaching.”

The statement adds that teachers working in the diocese are required to “have a knowledge and respect for the Catholic faith, and abide by the tenets of the Catholic Church.”

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