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Victoria has had a new IVF watchdog for six months. So far, it has not taken any action

Despite high-profile bungles in the assisted reproductive technology sector, the new regulator is yet to carry out a single enforcement action.

  • Grant McArthur

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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
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
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
Wall Street is edging closer to record highs.

ASX hits record high on US-China talk hopes; Monash plummets on IVF bungle

Investors have been buoyed by hopes this week’s talks between the US and China will ease global trade tensions, while CBA shares climbed to a fresh record.

  • Staff reporters
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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
Monash IVF has blamed “human error” for the disaster.

Monash IVF issued with ‘please explain’ for not raising alarm over baby bungle

The fertility giant was asked to justify why it withheld notice of an embryo mix-up to the sharemarket, causing its share price to plunge.

  • Grant McArthur
An embryologist at the Monash Medical IVF clinic at the Epworth Hospital.

Victorian IVF clinics might be underreporting dangerous incidents, report finds

Only one in five cases of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) – one of the most dangerous complications from IVF – were reported properly, according to a 2022 report.

  • Grant McArthur
Monash IVF said an embryo from a different patient had been incorrectly thawed and transferred to the birth parent.

‘Wild West of regulation’: Monash IVF may escape penalty for wrong baby bungle

Two families may face years of emotional and legal turmoil after an IVF bungle led to a woman giving birth to a stranger’s baby.

  • Grant McArthur

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