Infertility: Jennifer Aniston says she tried everything to have a child
Jennifer Aniston recently opened up about her medically assisted procreation (PMA) journey, a part of her life that she has ...
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Endometriosis: “I started to suffer well before my period, during and even after”
Nantcy Leone, journalist and author, has endometriosis. She looks back on her journey, from medical wandering to PMA (medically assisted ...
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PMA: towards the partial end of donor anonymity
Filiation of children born of medically assisted procreation, reimbursement of PMA for female couples, freezing of oocytes… In an interview ...
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Children conceived by IVF would have better health in adulthood
Being conceived through an assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilization, could confer benefits in terms of quality of ...
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A record number of egg and sperm donations recorded in 2021
Last year, according to the Biomedicine Agency, the number of gamete donors broke records in France. THE ESSENTIAL There are ...
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Fertility: losing weight before treatment does not increase chances of conception in obese women
Although health professionals often encourage obese women to lose weight before starting fertility treatment, this would not actually increase their ...
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Why an infertility plan?
A plan to combat infertility will be submitted to President Emmanuel Macron at the end of the year. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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“After a uterus transplant, a one in two chance of getting pregnant”
The Rennes University Hospital recently got the green light to perform uterus transplants. A look back at this technique with ...
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This discovery explains miscarriages in early pregnancy
Thanks to a new method of embryo research, one of the main causes of miscarriage has been identified. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Multiple pregnancy: a woman gives birth to… nine babies at the same time!
The Malian government announced on Tuesday May 4 that one of its young nationals gave birth to nine babies at ...
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Taboos, lack of humanity, separation…: “After 13 miscarriages, I finally gave birth to a little girl”
About 23 million miscarriages occur every year, or 44 every minute. However, as The Lancet deplores in a new report, ...
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True or false: does Covid-19 affect women’s fertility?
Many women are concerned about the impact of Covid-19 on their fertility. Paula Celada, French patient gynecologist at IVI Valence, ...
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Why there have never been so many births of twins in the world
The twinning rate has increased in thirty years, from 9.1 twin births per 1000 total births in the 1980s to ...
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Infertility treatment: more and more women are using it
Based on Medicare data, researchers from Ined and Inserm found that between 2008 and 2017, more than 150,000 women had ...
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Infertility: an increasingly delayed use of treatments
If more than a year without contraception passes without a pregnancy occurring, fertility specialists should be consulted quickly. Too late ...
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Bioethics law: insight into preimplantation diagnosis (PGD-A)
Nine months after its adoption at first reading in the National Assembly, the bill on bioethics is back in the ...
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When is the next baby? Six medical reasons not to ask the question
Illustrator Héloïse Weiner posted a drawing on Instagram entitled “So, when is the (next) baby?”. Liked more than 27,000 times, ...
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Infertility: how human eggs select sperm
As in animals, human eggs choose among sperm that present themselves to them through chemoattractant molecules. It is not always ...
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PMA: pre-implantation screening for trisomy 21 refused by the Senate
The measure was to allow the experimentation of screening for chromosomal abnormalities before in vitro fertilization for couples who have ...
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PMA: a post-mortem embryo transfer refused by the courts
A Frenchwoman wishes to have a third child from her deceased husband. They had conceived embryos, during his lifetime, by ...
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Cancers: children born from frozen embryo transfer more at risk
Children born from frozen embryos used during in vitro fertilization (IVF) would have a slightly higher risk than others of ...
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Bioethics law: what are the main measures?
The deputies voted, Tuesday, October 15, in majority for the bill of revision of biothetics. The flagship article is the ...
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PMA for all: how the Academy of Medicine explains its “reservations”
As the Assembly prepares to examine the bioethics bill which includes the opening of PMA to all women, the National ...
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PMA: a “necessary” transition period before the anonymity of gamete donors is lifted
While the bioethics bill, which will be examined in September in the National Assembly, provides for the lifting of anonymity ...
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The children of lesbian couples are as healthy as the rest
According to an American study conducted over several decades, the children of lesbian couples are in perfect psychological health. They ...
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PMA, GPA, conservation of gametes… what does the bioethics bill contain?
Ministers Agnès Buzyn, Nicole Belloubet and Frédérique Vidal presented their bioethics bill to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. Update ...
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PMA: more and more French women are turning to Spain
Between 2014 and 2018, 40% of foreign patients at IVI Spain clinics were French, which represents 7,300 French patients in ...
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Children born by ART do not have an increased risk of cancer
A long-term study of more than 47,000 children born through medically assisted procreation (PMA) shows that they do not present ...
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ART does not ultimately influence the health of the baby
Medically assisted procreation (PMA) does not ultimately impact birth weight and the risk of premature delivery. It is a relief ...
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PMA: Republican leaders oppose its extension in a forum
In a column published in Le Figaro, Laurent Wauquiez and four other executives of the Les Républicains party come out ...
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