fertility

Melbourne based tech company Sapyen hopes its convenient at-home testing kit will help revolutionise the IVF process for families around the world.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has admitted it is "expensive" to have children in response to the fresh ABS data.

South Korea's record-low fertility rate has plunged the country into an urgent population crisis.

A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilisation treatments as health care providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of children.

Melbourne researchers are getting closer to developing artificial ovaries to help people diagnosed with cancer overcome infertility.

A leading Australian IVF expert has sounded the alarm on declining male fertility, saying people need to be aware of what's behind it.

Inside the walls of Crete's Chania hospital are newborns at the centre of the surrogacy scandal.

Many websites selling home fertility tests known as the 'egg timer' test have been misleading customers about the tests' usefulness, a new study has found.

A world-first trial of a male contraceptive injection, which acts like a 'temporary vasectomy', is being undertaken in 25 men in Melbourne.

A sperm donor shortage exacerbated by the pandemic is continuing to hit the IVF industry with one major Victorian clinic reporting demand is outstripping supply by a factor of three to one.

A Sydney hospital is now offering a new fertility treatment which involves fewer hormone injections than traditional IVF.

Australian women who are at an increased risk of miscarriage will now be able to access a hormone therapy that can reduce the risk of losing a pregnancy.

Australians will soon be able to claim Medicare rebates for IVF testing used to prevent parents passing on serious genetic disorders to their child.

A review of more than 40,000 sperm tests by Genea scientists found that fertility decline starts to happen for men in their mid-forties.

A Melbourne woman who has become a mum after beating cancer twice wants others to know there is still hope for having a family after cancer treatment.

The class-action lawsuit currently includes 226 people, 17 of whom have discovered the now-disgraced doctor is their biological father through DNA.

Vitamin D deficiency could be the reason behind some couples struggles to conceive using IVF, according to new findings by Perth researchers.

The High Court of Australia has ruled it illegal for anti-abortion protesters in Victoria and Tasmania to harass or intimidate women within the 150-metre zones around centres.

In an era of flourishing numbers of Chinese visitors, sun surf and sand are the usual drawcards; but doctors are now predicting a boom in a new trend.