Obesity cuts the chance of IVF working and increases the risk of premature birth and stillbirth, the largest US study into the issue has found.

The Beverly Hills doctor who gave fertility treatments to octuplets mother Nadya Suleman was expelled from a professional organisation.

A US national medical society is investigating whether a fertility doctor followed its guidelines when he implanted six embryos into a Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last month.

IVF babies born from frozen embryos are healthier than those that develop from fresh embryos, according to research out today.

THOUGH the days leading up to Christmas can be a time of great pressure and some considerable frustration for parents, the vast majority of people consider parenthood a wondrous privilege and one of the — if not THE — defining factors of their lives.

Young women with cancer are gaining hope from a new procedure in which tissue from patients’ ovaries can be implanted in their forearms to produce mature eggs.