IVF
IVF babies have ‘significantly increased’ risk of serious heart defects
A study of 7.7 million babies has found those conceived with IVF have a 36 per cent higher risk of serious heart abnormalities than naturally conceived children, but parents have been told not to be alarmed.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Selfless, not selfish: Women who freeze their eggs happy to donate them
Young women who chose to freeze their eggs were once dubbed “selfish careerists”, a myth busted by new research showing most now intend to donate their eggs to other women.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Editorial
Healthcare
Discrimination against same-sex couples starting a family must end
LGBTQ families’ unsupported access to assisted reproductive technology does not make sense.
- The Herald's View
The graph that shows Australia’s emerging fertility problem
Australia’s fragmented IVF sector is ill-equipped to keep up with rising demand, according to a sweeping review co-authored by former health minister Greg Hunt.
- by Angus Thomson
Private school funding is the root of inequality’s ‘great divide’
David Hastie’s quoting of the Netherlands as a country with more students than Australia in private schools than public ones is not an accurate comparison (“In defence of private school funding: it’s not the great divide”, September 13). Private schools in the Netherlands are mostly chosen for children who require additional needs or for international students who have not yet learned Dutch; they are certainly not regarded as a status symbol, as can happen here.
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Women's health
‘IVF is changing’: Why more women are freezing their eggs
When Jaimie Gardner first froze her eggs in 2021, she joined a growing cohort of women taking their fertility into their own hands.
- by Angus Thomson
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Medicare
Bid to change ‘archaic’ IVF rules to include solo and same-sex parents
The definition of infertility to receive Medicare-funded fertility treatment requires couples to try to conceive through unprotected sex for one year.
- by Kate Aubusson
IVF at a fraction of the cost: Perth clinic disrupts infertility market
The Baruahs know how torturous infertility treatment can be, having spent seven years enduring it. But when they finally held their son, “everything changed.”
- by Claire Ottaviano
Opinion
Parenting
I’ve fathered five children in NSW. If I lived in Victoria, I’d probably have none
The state government’s donor recruitment drive may have good intentions, but without a review of family limits the idea of donating sperm feels too risky.
- by Gary Nunn
‘Thousands of lives in one shell’: Gaza’s IVF embryos destroyed by Israeli strike
When an Israeli shell struck Gaza’s largest fertility clinic in December, it destroyed more than 4000 embryos, plus 1000 more specimens of sperm and unfertilised eggs.
- by Andrew Mills, Imad Creidi and Saleh Salem
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Sydney Film Festival
Australian Succession star’s thriller to premiere at Sydney Film Festival
In Vitro, starring Ashley Zukerman, is a sci-fi thriller filmed in rural NSW.
- by Helen Pitt
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