News & events

Many thanks to those of you who promoted the World Infertility Survey.

The findings are available as a full report:

On June 5th, CONCEBIR held their 14th cycle of confereces for infertile patients, recognized specialists in human reproduction talk about technological improvements in assisted reproduction treatments. Conferences were focused on how can technology impact on IVF or ICSI treatments.

Estela's report can be accessed below.

'Dear Friends, I need names (and addresses) of European parliamentarian.   If I can get them to send a message our goverment and health ministry saying the new Turkish law does not comply with our EU standard, it would help.'

In March 2010 the Minister for Health in Quebec announced plans to introduce three free cycles of fertility treatment. Single embryo transfer (SET) is preferred under the new arrangements as the reduction of multiple birth costs are expected to provide savings to help fund the cost of treatment through Quebec's national health scheme.

iCSi member Beverly Hanck from the Infertility Awareness Association of Canada in Montreal has been campaigning tirelessly to achieve public health reimbursement for IVF treatment in Canada, arguing that improved techniques leading to more widely used SET would bring savings to fund treatment. 'This is wonderful news', she said.

This article appeared in BioNews 550

Original article by Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent
Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge

Our colleague Estela Chardon was featured in a blog outlining the participation of CONCEBIR at our Istanbul meeting and the IAPO conference.

See the blog here.

Iceland has been in the news through volcanic explosions - but did you know of the great work being done to support infertile couples in the country?

The World Infertility Survey is interested in the impact of fertility problems on quality of life. They would like to know the views of all those trying to conceive even those who do not need medical treatment. We'd encourage you to participate: http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/research/surveytracker/fertiqol/