IVF Australia Blog

This week’s Australian Bureau of Statistics announcement that the average age of mothers is 30.7 with the number of teenage mothers the lowest in a decade and the number of over 40 year old mothers increasing raises the issue of how to protect and preserve a woman’s fertility.

There have been a number of happy and high profile stories in the press recently about older celebrities giving birth to healthy children. Stories like this used to be extraordinary, but they certainly seem to be on the increase.

Last week there was worldwide press coverage about a decision taken by the UK government to support three-person IVF.  The decision will see the UK government produce draft regulations later this year, with the procedure potentially being offered within two years.

Investigations into the early development of embryos using time-lapse photography are helping to predict which patterns of embryo development are associated with the best outcomes for patients.

Last year, at The Fertility Society of Australia’s annual conference in Auckland,  I presented some research into one of the currently controversial areas of reproductive medicine – the role of natural killer cells in pregnancy. 

The obsession with the celebrity world seemed to lift to new heights recently, when Australian media reported on a UK based sperm donor service that stated it aimed to match women with anonymous celebrity dads when i

Last month, the National Health Service (NHS) in a Scottish county banned access to publically funded IVF treatment for couples who are overweight or who smoke.  In the UK, the number of government funded IVF cycles available to couples varies from region to region, and the waiting lists can be three years or more.  Not surprisingly, the news wa

I was recently asked to comment in a Sun Herald article on 26th August (also published online here: Sydney Morning Herald) on Collette Dinnigan, who pregnant at the age of 46, has called on women not

I sympathise with the many couples which consult with me each year about the possibility of accessing sex selection for family balancing reasons.  For the most part, these couples are asking for genuine and valid reasons, and I understand my patients’ desire to experience the differences, joys and difficulties of raising both boys and girls.

Later this month I will present to a group of GP’s in Melbourne and Sydney on arrayCGH technology, a form of microarray used in Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) at Melbourne IVF, IVFAustralia and Queensland Fertility Group.  The significance of this technology is its ability to rapidly screen all 24 chromosomes in a developing