Although assisted conception accounts for only a small proportion of pregnancies, it is growing more popular and more successful.
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And since many women who give birth in their 40s do not rely on assisted conception, social factors must also have played a part.
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A single attempt of even a very simple assisted-conception procedure can cost thousands of dollars, with even higher costs for more involved procedures, often not covered by insurance.
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And as sunset neared on the Jefferson-designed Capitol, the House of Delegates was in session, considering a bill about embryos and assisted conception as its members sat quietly in their seats.
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Or impotence: When Leigh and her husband finally embark on the arduous yearslong journey of assisted conception — which begins steeply, in their case, with the attempted reversal of his vasectomy — they find that the book of life is not so easily written.
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"We can stimulate her ovaries, get the eggs out, and freeze them for future use—or fertilize them with her partner's sperm, and keep those embryos in storage," explains Yacoub Khalaf, a consultant gynecologist and medical director of the assisted conception unit at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust in London.
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In donor-assisted conception, the donor may not receive any monetary compensation (in the UK), although they may have related expenses covered.
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Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel. Durham: Duke University Press. Those interested are recommended to contact their local Orthodox or Hasidic Rabbi, as these laws are obviously complicated, and as is customary.
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BioNews is an online newsletter publishing news about human genetics, assisted conception, and related topics. It was founded in 1999 by Juliet Tizzard, and is published by the English charity Progress Educational Trust, of which it is the flagship publication.
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The Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published on behalf of the Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction. The journal publishes articles on the subject of assisted conception, endocrinology, physiology and pathology, implantation, and preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
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Luigi Mastroianni, Jr. (1925-2008) was an American gynecologist specializing in reproductive medicine. He played a significant role in the development of both effective contraception and assisted conception. Mastroianni was born in 1925 in New Haven, Connecticut, where both of his parents worked as gynecologists. He studied zoology at his hometown university Yale (A.
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In 2005, Bewley and fertility expert Melanie Davies published "Which Career First? The most secure age for childbearing remains 20-35" in the British Medical Journal. Debating the reasons for having children at an older age, in what way this worsens outcomes and how assisted conception has contributed, it triggered a discussion on childbearing in older women.
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The use of a third party is tantamount to zina, or adultery. #Adoption of a child from an illegitimate form of medically assisted conception is not allowed. The child who results from a forbidden method belongs to the mother who delivered him/her. He or she is considered to be a laqid, or an illegitimate child.
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Sarah Martins Da Silva is a British gynaecologist and researcher specialising in male infertility. Da Silva is a senior lecturer in reproductive medicine at the University of Dundee. She also works as an honorary consultant gynaecologist at the Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, specialising in fertility problems and assisted conception. She was named one of the BBC's "100 Women of 2019" for her contribution to fertility science.
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About 45% of the revenue comes from overseas, mainly from liver transplants. It sold its assisted conception unit to the Fetal Medicine Foundation and a company called King's Fertility for a total of £26 million in June 2017. Kypros Nicolaides, a foetal medicine consultant at the trust, is a director of both organisations. In 2018-19 the trust wrote off overseas patient debts of £4.3 million and British private patient debts of £800,000.
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The Trust offers a range of services privately including assisted conception, services for children and maternity. Other complex care specialties including cardiology, vascular and thoracic surgery, gynaecology, general surgery and medicine are available at the Westminster Unit. Guy's and St Thomas' Private Healthcare also specialise in adult and children’s renal transplantation and operate one of the largest programmes in Europe. The Trust built a £100 million integrated cancer centre in conjunction with HCA Healthcare near London Bridge in 2016.
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Nargund is the founder and chief executive of Create Health Foundation, a UK national charity which is devoted to the promotion of an evidence-based, holistic and supportive approach to women's reproductive health through education and research. She sits on the medical advisory panel for Chana, a charity supporting infertility in the British Jewish community. She is passionate about prevention of infertility, and protecting women’s health and safety during assisted conception treatment and has pioneered UK's first fertility education initiative in secondary schools.
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The Birmingham Women's Fertility Centre at Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Birmingham, England (formerly named the "Assisted Conception Unit") is one of the UK's leading medical centres for infertility treatment and care. It is the longest established fertility clinic in the Midlands, marking thirty years operations in the year 2010. The clinic is based in an NHS hospital and provides integrated care to both NHS and private patients; the staff is internationally recognised for their work in treating with infertility. The clinic runs active programmes of egg-sharing, sperm donation and egg-donation.
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During her work as a consultant doctor for assisted conception, she noticed that treatment options for male fertility were limited, instead requiring the female partner to undergo invasive fertility treatments such as in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection that did not directly address the problem of low male fertility. Da Silva's research investigates the functionality of sperm cells, particularly the sperm-specific calcium channel CatSper, and how modern lifestyle choices may affect sperm function. She is working on developing drugs to enhance sperm count and function, for which she has won funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Da Silva helped create a high-throughput system for screening many potential drugs, an approach which led to the discovery of two compounds that were able to enhance sperm motility in laboratory tests.
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Where joint adoption of children by same-sex couples is legal, so too is step-parent adoption. In all jurisdictions within Australia, a lesbian co-mother or gay co-father may use stepparent adoption provisions, although female couples in those states whose children were born through assisted conception may not actually need to adopt them, as the law there presumes the mother's female partner to be a legal parent as long as she consented to the conception. As of 2017, all states and territories, allow both same-sex partners to have a legally recognised relationship with their child - except Western Australia within surrogacy. However, even those laws contain a general presumption against making an adoption order because an adoption order severs the legal relationship between the child and one of the child's birth parents.
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Strathern's work in the 1990s became the basis for a new subdiscipline in anthropology concerned with new reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization. In her two 1992 publications, After Nature: English Kinship in the Late 20th Century and Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship and the New Reproductive Technologies, Strathern argued that existing models of nature and culture were transformed by the explicit use of technology to achieve reproduction. In the co-authored study Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception she and her colleagues proposed that new definitions of kinship and descent would emerge as a result of the expansion of new reproductive technologies. These studies paved the way for what has since come to be known as the new kinship studies.
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