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Alice Almeida has started the first support network for patients of IVF.

‘It felt like a business’: Patients unsettled over IVF bungles and an industry that controls itself

Would-be parents and those who have used IVF to conceive are anxious about the safety of fertility treatment following a series of recent bungles, as experts examine what must change.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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Former Monash IVF chief operating officer Hamish Hamilton.

Embattled Monash IVF moves to block defecting executive’s move to rival

As investigators focus on how patients have been harmed by recent Monash IVF errors, the fertility giant was in court fighting to prevent a former employee passing on commercial secrets to its biggest rival.

  • Grant McArthur
The peak IVF industry body welcomed the three-month review and the potential for a national regulatory approach.

Fertility clinics face national regulation after Monash IVF bungles

A new independent national body will oversee Australia’s fertility industry amid concerns clinics have committed more errors than previously reported.

  • Grant McArthur
Monash IVF chief executive Michael Knaap.

Victoria to push for stricter laws after Monash IVF chief steps down

The health minister called on Monash IVF to take further action in response to recent embryo mix-ups after the fertility giant’s embattled CEO stepped down.

  • Grant McArthur
The Clayton clinic in Melbourne where Monash IVF’s second embryo bungle occurred last week.

‘Three strikes’: Demands for answers over repeat Monash IVF bungles

Key investors, medical negligence lawyers and governance experts say Monash IVF and its board are under pressure after “systemic” failures, as health ministers prepare for talks about tightening regulations.

  • Grant McArthur
Demand for IVF services remains strong but providers acknowledge COVID cases are causing widespread interruptions to services.

‘Completely unacceptable’: Minister lashes Monash IVF after second embryo transfer bungle

A Melbourne woman has had the wrong embryo transferred to her during an IVF procedure at a Clayton clinic, the second bungle by the fertility giant exposed this year.

  • Grant McArthur
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Baby Angus, his surrogate mother Jennifer McCloy and his biological mother, Edwina Peach

Jen had a baby for her best friend. It was harder than it needed to be

One in six couples face infertility. A new inquiry will look at how the government can make parenthood easier, from IVF to surrogacy.

  • Jordan Baker
Debris covers the ground after an explosion on Saturday, May 17, 2025 in Palm Springs, Calif. (ABC7 Los Angeles via AP)

Investigators treating explosion outside Californian fertility clinic as terrorism

The suspect, who died in the explosion that tore through the clinic, attempted to record the attack.

  • Eric Tucker and Gene Johnson
Danielle and Leon Green at home in Western Australia.

A coroner couldn’t tell Danielle how her son died. Then she lost her daughter

After losing her two babies, Danielle Green wants genetic testing introduced in the post-mortem investigations of young people.

  • Frances Howe
Monash IVF has cancelled some Queensland fertility treatments over concerns sperm donor records do not meet new identification requirements.

Baby dreams left on ice over lack of sperm donor ID

Queensland fertility clinics have been forced to cancel some women’s IVF treatments because their embryos were created using sperm without adequate donor records to meet new rules.

  • Grant McArthur

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