Jean Scott and Peter Illingworth | Richard Anderson | Anna Pia Ferraretti |
More Boys from IVF compared to ICSI
Jean Scott, IVF Australia, Hunters Hill, New South Wales; Peter Illingworth, Medical Director of IVF Australia
In vitro fertilisation results in a higher proportion of boys compared to intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection – that’s according to data presented by Jean Scott of IVF Australia. Together with IVF Australia’s medical director, Peter Illlingworth, she describes the data and discusses the implications.
Cancer Chemotherapy and Female Fertility: Taxanes May Increase Damage to Ovarian Function
Richard Anderson, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh
A premenopausal woman with breast cancer, who is about to take chemotherapy, may want to do everything possible to preserve her fertility. Data presented by Richard Anderson of Edinburgh University suggest that regimens involving taxanes may increase the damage to her ovaries.
New Technique for Detecting Egg Defects Before Fertilisation
Anna Pia Ferraretti, S.I.S.M.E.R. Clinic, Bologna
Researchers from Italy have revealed a technique which allows them to spot certain defects in an egg cell before it is used for insemination. Anna Pia Ferraretti, of the S.I.S.M.E.R. Clinic in Bologna, had the details in Prague.