Latest Artificial insemination Stories

A Swedish city is being sued for denying a lesbian artificial insemination because her partner had already tried and failed to become pregnant, officials say. Uppsala's health service rejected the woman for the procedure after her partner was denied a fourth attempt at insemination because she had passed the maximum age allowed by the city health authority, The Local reported Saturday. Her younger partner had decided that she would try to become pregnant in place of the older partner. As...

At the just-concluded European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual conference in Barcelona, BioXCell (http://www.bioxcell.com) reports enthusiastic reception of its INVOcell infertility treatment. According to Rusty Warren, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of BioXcell, "Reaching the more than 100 million worldwide couples suffering from infertility is the goal of over two dozen international marketing organizations already expressing interest in representing...

Researchers in France reported Sunday that couples have more difficulty conceiving when the man is over 40 years of age than if he is younger.While experts have long understood the importance of a woman's age in conceiving, the new research suggests that the age of a man plays a larger role than previously believed. "Our data give evidence for the first time, for a strong paternal effect on IUI (intrauterine insemination) outcome either on pregnancy rates but also on miscarriage...

1st test-tube baby born in Bangladesh DHAKA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The first test-tube baby in Bangladesh was born at Square Fertility Center in the capital Dhaka on Sept. 30, local newspaper The Daily Star reported Wednesday. Since its inception in December 2006, a large number of women sought treatment here and many of them conceived through intra- uterine insemination (IUI) method. But Mrs Khan, 37, was the first mother who gave birth to a child through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) or...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Lulu, the first rhino to give birth to a calf conceived by artificial insemination, is pregnant again.The Budapest Zoo confirmed Monday that the 27-year-old rhino will give birth in late 2008.She already is mother to Layla, the world's first rhino calf born following artificial insemination with sperm from another rhino at the zoo, Easy Boy.This time, the zoo used sperm from Simba, 38, a rhino from Britain's Colchester Zoo.A rhino's gestation period is 16 to 17...

BANGKOK, Thailand - After panda porn failed to spark amour, Thai zoo authorities turned Monday to artificial insemination in the hope of impregnating their lone female giant panda.Authorities at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand inseminated Lin Hui with semen from her cage-mate, Chuang Chuang, on Monday morning and will repeat the procedure on Tuesday. The artificial insemination is a last ditch effort to get Lin Hui pregnant, after videos of pandas having sex failed to entice Chuang...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese health official has vowed harsh punishment for people profiting from surrogate motherhood, a practice banned years ago along with the sale of eggs and sperm, state media said on Monday. Chinese newspapers have highlighted the recent growth of Web sites advertising surrogate pregnancy services, some provided by college graduates, for childless couples at a cost of up to 100,000 yuan ($12,500). "The application of surrogate pregnancy is seriously...

By Wendel Broere AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch politicians have expressed outrage as a new channel set up by the creator of "Big Brother" pushes the boundaries of reality TV with a contestant due to give birth on the show, as well as a sperm donor contest. Talpa, the new television station launched earlier this month by the billionaire producer of Big Brother John de Mol, aired a show on Wednesday in which a single woman and a lesbian couple try to select sperm donors to father a child....

MYSTIC, Conn. (AP) -- After bringing in a parade of males and watching for years as nature never took its course, scientists at Mystic Aquarium have performed what is believed to be the first artificial insemination of a beluga whale. Aquarium scientists, with help from their peers at Sea World, artificially inseminated Kela, a 24-year-old beluga, on Thursday morning. After giving the whale hormones to induce the release of an egg into the reproductive tract, workers used a crane to lift Kela...

Key words: ENl)OMETRIOSIS, GIFT, INFERTILITY, IUI ABSTRACT We compared the effectiveness of gamete intm-Fallopian transfer (GIFT) and intrauterine insemination (IUI) after controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) in the treatment of infertility due to cndometriosis. This was a retrospective study carried out at a tertiary teaching medical center. A total of 127 consecutive patients with endomettiosis were treated with GIFT or IUI after COH between June 1990 and December 1998. Patients were...