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In the past two months, we’ve seen two cases of the wrong embryos transferred into patients, clinics providing incorrect information to sperm donors, and a class action against a number of IVF companies for add-on genetic testing that may have incorrectly found embryos were “abnormal”.

IVF ‘add-ons’ are a toxic cherry on a cake iced with desperation and hope

Some treatments have little evidence to support their use and others risk adverse effects. Yet IVF add-ons are regularly offered to desperate patients.

  • Isabelle Oderberg

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How the most human of errors led to a woman giving birth to a stranger’s baby

Monash IVF counted a patient’s embryos and realised it had a catastrophic, life-altering problem on its hands.

  • Grant McArthur
Not so perfect match? Some children have been linked to the wrong sperm donors or the wrong women.

Our fertility industry is a mess. As a donor, I know what could fix it

Sperm donors and even mothers have been matched with the wrong children. We have the science to make sure it doesn’t happen.

  • Gary Nunn
Former Monash IVF chief operating officer Dr Hamish Hamilton.

Monash IVF has partial win over defecting executive

The Supreme Court has restricted the work that Monash IVF’s former chief operations officer can perform for rival company Virtus Health.

  • Grant McArthur
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
Sex selection during IVF is not allowed for non-medical reasons in Australia.

Choosing the sex of an IVF baby is banned. Should it be?

Sex selection during IVF is not allowed in Australia, so people are spending $45,000 to do it in the US.

  • Angus Dalton
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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
Monash IVF is Australia’s second biggest fertility clinics group with an estimated 25.3 per cent market share.

The collateral damage from Monash IVF’s colossal embryo bungles

Monash IVF hasn’t just undermined its own reputation and customer confidence; it must result in a confidence wobble for the entire industry.

  • Elizabeth Knight

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/in-vitro-fertilisation-1mxy