The tech giant is expanding the benefits it offers to UK-based employees, including paying for four rounds of IVF, an option for employees to undertake elective egg freezing, alongside support for adoption, surrogacy and other fertility help. The company said that supporting employees to build families was “core to our employee-centric culture”. Its existing benefits…
More than 100 patients who had eggs and embryos frozen at a leading clinic have been told they may have been damaged due to a fault in the freezing process. The clinic, at Guy’s Hospital in London, said it may have unwittingly used some bottles of a faulty freezing solution in September and October 2022.…
Top practitioners of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)/Assisted Reproductive Technique (ART) in Nigeria have dismissed studies that babies born through IVF are more susceptible to cancer, infertility and other degenerative diseases. They also dismissed a report published, last week, that suggests, to survive the harsh economy, Nigerian youths have resorted to selling their male and female…
Brianna Hayes sought answers through a DNA test taken in her late 20s after she learned the man who raised her and whom she called dad was not her biological father. Now, the DNA results have led to a lawsuit involving Hayes’ mother and her mother’s former gynecologist. The lawsuit, filed by Hayes’ mother Sharon Hayes…
A surprising 23-week pregnancy with a baby in the bowel leads to a miraculous French delivery. In France, a 37-year-old woman was surprised when she found out she was 23 weeks pregnant with a baby growing in her bowel without knowing it. She had been experiencing severe stomach pain and getting more bloated for 10…
The world’s sickle cell anemia day is celebrated on the 19th of June every year, and it is indeed vital to celebrate the inspiration and the future of this aspect of Health care. In Nigeria, the foundation for sickle cell anemia usually organize seminar to mark the day. Our center participate at the foundation training…
(CNN) Over the past 50 years, human sperm counts appear to have fallen by more than 50% around the globe, according to an updated review of medical literature. If the findings are confirmed and the decline continues, it could have important implications for human reproduction. Researchers say it would also be a harbinger of declining…
Their relationship may have officially come to an end in 2014, but Sofia Vergara and her ex-fiancĂ©Â Nick Loeb are still locked in a legal battle over the custody rights to their frozen embryos. On January 27, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal in Louisiana denied Loeb’s appeal, upholding the prior ruling that his lawsuit seeking to obtain custody…
Infertile couples can rack up thousands in debt to pay for IVF. But new money-saving deals may not be the solution they seem to be When Helen Brackley and her husband, Paul, decided to start a family, they didn’t expect that their efforts to get pregnant would turn their lives – and their finances –…
A newborn in Israel shocked doctors with a rare case of fetus-in-fetu, a congenital anomaly that occurs in about every 1 in 500,000 births The Times of Israel reports that a baby girl was born with an embryo inside her stomach in a case of fetus-in-fetu, a congenital anomaly that occurs in about every 1 in…
