The Government’s decision to fund infertility treatment will relieve some of the pressure on women who already face a hugely stressful and emotional journey, a leading support group has claimed.

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A Cork fertility clinic has claimed a world-first in achieving a pregnancy where use of a ground-breaking technique ensured a couple, at risk of passing on a severe genetic disease to their unborn child, did not do so.

There was a time when a snooker table in the workplace was enough to entice would-be employees, but the offer from tech companies to cover the cost of egg freezing for female workers has upped the ante on the office perk.

The shame and stigma of infertility are still part and parcel of dealing with it despite far greater public awareness of how it affects people, according to the chair of the National Infertility Support and Information Group. 

The medical director of one of the country’s main fertility clinics has said it is time to end "muddled thinking" on egg donation and pay donors.

Around 10 couples are using a fertility service, recently available in Ireland, that screens embryos for genetic conditions.

The issue of male infertility can leave men floundering and uncommunicative but taking a medical and holistic approach can have astonishing results.

Leading fertility experts have clashed over the merits of social egg-freezing, with one doctor warning women against wasting their money on trying to have a baby in this way.

Couples affected by infertility will have access to a clinic in Cork following the decision by Dublin-based Sims IVF to expand beyond the capital.

Whether an expensive male fertility test has any bearing on improving outcomes for couples with difficulties conceiving is being examined as part of a project at Cork Fertility Centre (CFC).

BY the time we hit 30, most women have been bitten by the baby bug.

A leading Irish fertility clinic is to begin screening embryos for cystic fibrosis (CF) to help couples facing difficult family planning choices.

Fertility treatment options in Cork are set to expand on foot of a partnership between a leading Dublin clinic and a Cork service that currently treats male infertility only.

Claims that a breakthrough in infertility treatment can treble the chances of a successful birth have been dismissed as “ridiculous” by the vice-president of the Irish Fertility Society.

Screening of embryos for genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF) is being made available in fertility clinics in Cork and Dublin for the first time — with a Dublin clinic offering screening for Down’s syndrome.

A fertility clinic in Cork is the first in Ireland to introduce a service which promises a 90%-plus survival rate for frozen embryos, as they will be frozen 600 times faster than before.

IN the past, if a married couple failed to produce a child, there was often an assumption that the woman was “barren”, and no one ever thought there was anything wrong with the male, says Helen Browne, chairwoman of the National Infertility Support and Information Group (NISIG).

FROM the home to the workplace to the altar the national financial crisis is affecting every facet of life and infertility is no exception.

WIDESPREAD concern among fertility experts that women are leaving it too late to have children has led to calls for a national fertility awareness campaign, beginning in the classroom.

IRELAND risks a landmark custody battle involving babies born to couples who participated in an egg or sperm donation programme because the legal status of such children is unclear, a fertility expert warned yesterday.

A SHORTAGE of donor eggs in this country means up to 100 Irish couples with fertility problems are on waiting lists for eggs with many forced to travel to Spain or the United States.

INFERTILITY experts have said it is “madness” for a 66-year-old woman to be allowed to give birth and that nobody over the age of 45 would be allowed receive egg donations in this country.