News - Announcements

August 2007

Australia: Plan to introduce 'adoption' of IVF embryos (22.8.2007)
COUPLES who donate their excess IVF embryos may be able to choose the prospective recipients under a radical policy change being considered by Victorian health authorities.

Cancer Tackled in Transplant Patients (15.8.2007)
Injecting healthy blood cells into transplant patients with cancer can improve survival, the first clinical study of the treatment suggests.

Ovary Transplant Produces Embryo in Sister (2.8.2007)
Doctors say that this first successful ovarian transplant between non-identical siblings should give hope to women who suffer from infertility.